SV: finished reading _Spiders_

I'm a bit further along - just 200 pages to go. I'm finding this book quite disturbing, and (like Madman) this is going to be a book that is going to gather dust on my shelves once I've read it. The descriptions and the use of language are so wonderful, and the main subject either bores me or makes me slightly nauseous. 

Yes, Delany manages to convey that it's possible to get off on all this stuff, but every time I find myself entering the head of one of the characters I feel sick enough to skip meals.  I guess I must have a fetish about regular applications of soap and water, and that it's more important to my enjoyment of literature than I thought. 


Heidi


 

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> I'm about halfway.  I've kinda stalled because of all the lengthly sex
> scenes. To be honest, I've been skimming them. It makes me say to
> myself: I love you, Chip. But can't we have a book that _isn't_ about
> the many ways men can have sex with each other?
>