Inherent Vice Review: St. Petersburg Times

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 10:51:35 CDT 2009


Doc can't  bear to look but sure is partly turned on by them;  cf:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/my-acid-trip-with-squeaky_b_252681.html

rich

On 8/7/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> It takes a beach-dweller to really appreciate a "Beach Read."
>
> Colette Bancroft hails from tampabay.com.:
>
> 	. . . the Golden Fang may be more of a MacGuffin than a threat.
> 	The true horror that haunts the book's nostalgia for a golden
> 	moment in time is the Manson Family murders, which occurred
> 	just before the book's action and turned the peaceful hippie
> 	ethos inside out in one monstrous night. Doc, Bigfoot and
> 	others refer to them glancingly, as if they can't bear to look at
> 	them straight on.
>
> http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article1024726.ece
>



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