Independent (UK) review of IV

[Carvill, John]

Maybe the best review I've read so far...

"I was reading the new Pynchon while grooving at a music festival. It
seemed as if the ambience of hipness and the aromatic mellow mood found
a fraternal echo in these pages. Listening to Thom Yorke and reading
Thomas Pynchon, more or less simultaneously, struck me as deeply
resonant and right. The book exudes a vibe that locates it somewhere
between Woodstock and Altamont, the rhythm of peace and love syncopated
and blood-spattered by baseball bats and motorbike chains.


Inherent Vice is Pynchon's hymn to the Sixties, both homage and lament.
In the novel we are at the end of the long Sixties, when the Manson gang
have already sliced up Sharon Tate, the US military is still napalming
Vietnam, and the West Coast counter-culture is suffering from an immense
post-coital depression and hangover..."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/inherent-v
ice-by-thomas-pynchon-1764863.html