Inherent Vice review in the Guardian

[rich]

p.s. Pynchon is a romantic

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:42 AM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. . .
>>
>> 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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