Pynchons Problem

[Alex Colter]

My goodness has Criticism really become this dreadful...? I tried to read
it...
And surely Rich is joking, being Opposite Day or some like affair...

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:06 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Is the reviewer claiming that Pynchon's a chick-lit writer?  I thought
> people were always wondering why Pynchon seems to appeal more to men than
> women (something I've admittedly always argued against, but never had the
> numbers to prove).
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> Laura
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> From: Mark Kohut **
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> I do not think I will read this review becuase these remarks are out of
> his ass.
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> The question is character creation, then and now, (among other things)  and
> what vision of men and women
> in the world, their world, the writers have.
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> Plenty of assholes want women to "like them"....[no reference] and
> many 'male triumphalists" get liked by lots of women...as readers.
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> On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:27 PM, David Morris wrote:
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> > I hope you're joking.
> > I think this reviewer is an ass.
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> > On Sunday, March 11, 2012, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > here it is, my problem with Pynchon in essence from a description of a
> NYRB review of Houellbec's new novel
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> > > "Postwar novelists—Updike, Mailer—were male triumphalists. Their
> successors—Franzen, Shteyngart—have overcorrected. They want women to like
> them. Their men are losers."
> > > that's what's happened to Pynchon, too
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> > > rich
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