Inherent Vice review in the Guardian

[Robin Landseadel]

	Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
	Christopher Tayler is charmed by Pynchon's mix of comedy and
	cultural detritus:

	. . .Behind a lot of Pynchon's complication, there's a simple
	sadness about lost possibilities and the things that America
	chooses to do to itself. It's expressed in the closing vision of
	Californian exurbia in The Crying of Lot 49, and it's here too in
	Doc's wish, on a misty freeway, "for the fog to burn away, and
	for something else this time, somehow, to be there instead".
	Sometimes, reading the book, I found myself wondering if
	Pynchon, of all people, hadn't undersold the era's apocalyptic
	paranoia. You get a much stronger sense of fear and confusion
	from Joan Didion's The White Album or Robert Stone's Dog
	Soldiers - more conservative books in some ways, but also
	more beady-eyed about the myths of the 60s. . .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/01/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-review