Countdown to Inherent Vice

[Carvill John]

So it's confirmed, ha? Rejoice!
 
>It sounds... kind of amusing... and potentially really bad.
 
Well, maybe that excerpt is somewhat slight, perhaps just a little underwhelming, hinting, even, at Pynchon pastiche. But then that's how it plays for us, old fans who've always been on the p-list (haven't we?), and lets keep in in our minds and not forget that many of us thought exactly the same about the very first little snippet of ATD, and that turned out to be a classic, did it not?
 
And it certainly does have Pynchon's flavour and style - that "...through the kitchen window there'd never been much point putting curtains over..." etc.
 
Have to say though, that cover, for me anyhow, has rocketed straight to the top of the 'Worst Pynchon Artwork' list.
 
 
 
 
 
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:20:28 -0500From: JD <wescac>Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon's new novel: 'Inherent Vice' - ------=_Part_18971_3436041.1227644429202Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitContent-Disposition: inline It sounds... kind of amusing... and potentially really bad. I think I said when we first got the rumor that I agreed with some on herethat AtD sounded like a "farewell" almost. That it sounded like his "lifework" so to speak may have been completed there - the four big un's hereferenced at the beginning of his career. This seems to confirm that tome. Not that I'm complaining! 
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