Inherent Vice: Yet another Times Online Review

[Robin Landseadel]

I'd say Aravind Adiga "gets it.":

	At this stage of his career, Thomas Pynchon resembles Stanley
	Kubrick more than he does any living novelist. Like Kubrick,
	Pynchon is a maverick visionary, a creator of iconic, sometimes
	inaccessible works of art; famously reclusive and yet the object
	of a cult-like following; and, like Kubrick, who experimented with
	various genres, Pynchon has in recent years developed a love
	of shape-shifting. His 1997 novel Mason & Dixon, set in
	revolutionary-era America, was written in a pastiche of 18th-
	century English; after a long silence came Against the Day, in
	2006, widely regarded as his most confusing work (many
	reviewers had a tough time saying what this book was about -
	anarchists, possibly); and now, only three years later, he gives
	us, in what is either an act of perversity or a wholly logical
	development, his most reader-friendly book. A detective novel,
	no less. . .

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article6724624.ece