Inherent Vice review John Carvill

[Michael Bailey]

Thanks, Robin.  I enjoyed that!
So, Sledge Poteet, from Vineland, shows up in IV...


Robin noted:
>
>        BY JOHN CARVILL
>
>        Thomas Pynchon's darkly satirical masterpiece, Gravity's
>        Rainbow, doesn't so much lodge itself in your mind as burn a
>        permanent hole in the fabric of your psyche. Its structure is so
>        complex, convoluted, and self-reflexive that it doesn't so much
>        have a "plot" as a "Mandelbrot." It doesn't so much come to an
>        end as twist itself round, like some sort of multidimensional
>        mobius strip, to meet up again with its own ominous beginning.
>
>         Along the way, so many ill omens and grotesque morbidities
>        have flown past that it might seem impossible for Pynchon to up
>        the portentousness ante any further. As the final chapter of the
>        book unfolds, however, he manages to trump himself once
>        more, inviting us to imagine a situation so irretrievably dire that:
>
>        Philip Marlowe will suffer a horrible migraine and reach by
>        reflex for the pint of rye in his suit pocket, and feel homesick for
>        the lacework balconies of the Bradbury Building. . .
>
> Long, detailed review, here's the rest
>
> http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/65/65pynchon.html
>



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