Honestly for me personally the reading experience is much more on the intellectually interesting side & less on the cringey side; for better or worse I've read enough 1960s lit by white men that I'm actually pretty impressed by the degree to which Vidal is sympathetic to Myra and lets her be a complex/flawed human even within the cartoonish, comedic world he's set up. And of course I'm interested in the place-and-time queer artifact aspect of it. But yeah, I would definitely hesitate before recommending it to anyone unless I was very sure that was the experience they really wanted to have!
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Date: 2019-04-04 05:14 am (UTC)Honestly for me personally the reading experience is much more on the intellectually interesting side & less on the cringey side; for better or worse I've read enough 1960s lit by white men that I'm actually pretty impressed by the degree to which Vidal is sympathetic to Myra and lets her be a complex/flawed human even within the cartoonish, comedic world he's set up. And of course I'm interested in the place-and-time queer artifact aspect of it. But yeah, I would definitely hesitate before recommending it to anyone unless I was very sure that was the experience they really wanted to have!