BlogCritics Review of Inherent Vice

[Carvill, John]

This not been posted yet? Don't think so... IV review on BlogCritics, by
Gordon Hauptfleisch:

"In Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon forgoes some gravitas to chase - well,
meander without necessarily cutting to the chase - a few rainbows.
Offering us the unique experience of late sixties psychedelic noir with
trademark oppressive paranoia and kaleidoscopic pop culture references -
from Gummo Marx to Mike Curb, and a dopers' roundtable discussion of
sorts of American versus English zombies - Pynchon seems to cavalierly
create a vastly amusing, enjoyable but convoluted narrative where the
dots are virtually impossible to follow ("And would this be multiple
choice?" he understandingly interjects at one point), and the life
portrayed is oftentimes absurd. And why not? After all, Pynchon once
said, maybe his fiction is "not the world, but with a minor adjustment
or two it's what the world might be." Zombies and all....."

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas
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