So Hot in Herr(land)!

Four chapters into Herland, and this novel has not taken me the places I thought it would have taken me. Three men+society of thousands of women who have been without men for 2000 years=... well you know. Herland is about three middle aged explorers - Vandyck Jennings, Jeff Margrave, Terry Nicholson - who want to discover the land where no men roam, just women. While Vandyck, or Van, actually wants to find Herland from reasons other men might, all three men are intrigued by exploration and the thrill of discovering un-found territories. The three men fly in a small bi-plane and view the area from above; it appears cultivated and technologically advanced for a society of all women. When they touch down they initially do not see any women but after rummaging around, they feel they are beign watched by three females. The three explorers try to get the women to come to them, but they play hard to get. Nicholson makes a grab for one of them, but fails and they chase the surprisingly athletic women to a settlement. They struggle to keep up but when they come upon the settlement, find themselves surrounded and then taken captive. All three are drugged, become unconcious, but wake up unharmed.
....i found this part of the book very weird. the capture seemed to accomplish nothing at this point of the book. they roam around pretty freely although they are still "captive." it is almost as if the men are welcomed there, yet the women do not know how to handle the three men....
....when they do escape from their non-strict imprisonment, they make it to the plane, only to see the three women from their first encoutner to be waiting for them. this part of the book surprised me and i i found it quite redundant. this might be done by Charlotte Perkins Gilman to show just how smart the women are....
The men start to befriend the women and even in captivity, talk freely with them. They ask how long has this been an all woman society, and they answer 2000 years. They are surprised that it took that long for them to ask.
....it seems that Herland is the perfect place. as a society of all women there are no problems, no enemies, everyone coexists together. reproduction is done asexually and babies are always female through the process of Parthenogenesis. Parthenos means virgin in Latin. its crazy to think that for the last 2000 years there have only been females and all the babies born are girls...
This is as far as I have gotten through Herland, it is not a hard read, but it also is not easy. I find myself reading passages a few times often, and getting lost in the book.

1. When will the action pick up?
2. Will there be a sudden twist?
3. ..and what will it be?
4. How could Herland be so "perfect"?

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