IV review - The Australian

[John Bailey]

"What would, coming from another writer, look like a sad exercise in
retrospective longing for a southern California that never was, lights
up in Inherent Vice like the kitsch surfing poster on Doc Sportello's
wall does when he has been smoking weed, radiant with utopian
possibility 'as if the contrast knob of Creation had been messed with
just enough to give everything an underglow, a luminous edge, and
promise that the night was about to turn epic somehow'."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25848037-5003900,00.html