Inherent Vice review in the Guardian

[rich]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>        Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
>        Christopher Tayler is charmed by Pynchon's mix of comedy and
>        cultural detritus:
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>        Sometimes, reading the book, I found myself wondering if
>        Pynchon, of all people, hadn't undersold the era's apocalyptic
>        paranoia. You get a much stronger sense of fear and confusion
>        from Joan Didion's The White Album or Robert Stone's Dog
>        Soldiers - more conservative books in some ways, but also
>        more beady-eyed about the myths of the 60s. . .
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/01/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-review
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thank god for that, Pynchon's humor is a major attraction. No one ever
accused Didion and Stone of being humorists--u can easily say, they
are being overwrought to some extent. depends how u look at it, I
suppose.

rich
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