Disappointed

[Toby Levy]

I finished Inherent Vice yesterday and I'm not going to pretend I wasn't
disappointed.

I found it to be like a Tom Robbins novel.  Not that there's anything wrong
with that, but I expected more, I expected better.

I will say that the first reading of a Pynchon novel is not the end of the
evaluation process for me.  I remember the shock of disappointment I felt
when I first finished Vineland, and I have come to greatly appreciate the
book now that I've read it three or four times.

Vineland suffered following a masterpiece like Gravity's Rainbow, and IV
suffers from following Against the Day, which is an incredible book, a work
of genius IMHO.

Toby
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