IVIV reception: "he does, amid the fog of skunky smoke, have a moral center."

[Doug Millison]

"Larry 'Doc' Sportello, the diminutive, pony-tailed PI who narrates  
this novel, tumbles through its story in a doper's haze. There is  
hardly a scene in which he is not puffing, toking or jonesing for a  
joint. But he does, amid the fog of skunky smoke, have a moral center."

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/55459452.html
Life's a beach in Pynchon's sprawling California
Zany novel has a serious side, a statement about the way California -  
and the country - has changed.
By JOHN FREEMAN, Special to the Star Tribune
Last update: August 29, 2009 - 4:22 PM