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[Mark Kohut]

Besides the 80s look, I suggest (sans neon) that it evokes garish
mass market "pulp fiction' titles from earlier decades............

Here's my gloss on the difference and the difference it makes:
Most mass market pulp fiction covers have human figures on them......

(for marketing reasons, for fiction, people on a cover 'sell' a book  better (all things being equal)
For TRP, what has happened to "people"---the loss of their humanity--is one theme 
that is served by no humans, even pulp-stagey, on the cover.

But a car, an object we Americans (in general) have loved more than our fellow beings?
Perfect from V. to now....

And neon! in TRP----see artificial lighting everywhere----a screaming issues forth.....



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>> amazon has uploaded the new cover and the pg length is now 384.
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>> what's interesting about the cover which might have been mentioned
>> here is that it looks so 1980s--that ugly neon
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>> rich
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> . . . in magenta and kelly green,  Zoyd's favorite color combo . . .
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> http://www.amazon.com/Inherent-Vice-Thomas-Pynchon/dp/1594202249
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