IVIV (1) "She came along the alley and up the back steps ..."

[John Carvill]

> The opening of IV is basic detective genre exposition.

Well, you say this, and then you criticise it for lack of complexity.

I think what Pynchon has done is a beautifully elegant and very
successful literary tightrope-walk between 'just' pulling off a
pitch-perfect Chandler pastiche, and doing something else at the same
time, something which, while 'light', is unmistakably, uniquely,
brilliantly Pynchon.

You've previously called this book 'crap'. It'll still be interesting
to see what more you have to say. But the problem is, is it's like
that you already decided to hate the book from the off, so you're
determined not to see its merits.