Inherent Vice (4 stars)

[rich]

luckily, most of the reviews haven't given much away though, for me,
what interests me about Pynchon's writing than the topics/subjects per
se but that unique goofy-profound style of his writing (that will
never be captured in a review)

as the Russian soldier says at Peenemunde--"Be nice"

rich

On 7/9/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I'm still plugging my ears and humming loudly whenever these reviews are
> posted.  I like to read reviews after the fact.  I suspect, though, that the
> book's length crops up in most of the reviews.  Accessible vs. Lightweight.
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Jul 9, 2009 9:34 AM
>>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Subject: Inherent Vice (4 stars)
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>>Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice (4 stars)
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>>    * Source: The List (Issue 633)
>>    * Date: 9 July 2009
>>    * Written by: Miles Fielder
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>>Less than half the length of his last 1000-page tome and riffing on
>>the relatively straightforward hardboiled crime genre as opposed to
>>the exhausting literary mash-up of Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon’s
>>seventh novel is the reclusive author’s most accessible to date.
>>Essentially a detective tale set in southern California at the butt
>>end of the 60s, it features a hippie PI named Doc Sportello who
>>emerges from a marijuana high to investigate the disappearance of a
>>millionaire property magnate.
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>>The similarities to the Coen brothers’ stoner noir The Big Lebowski
>>are inescapable, but we’re nevertheless firmly in Pynchon territory. A
>>number of characters from the northern California-set Vineland pop up
>>here and there, but what makes this hilarious wise-ass yarn so
>>Pynchon-esque is the preoccupation with counter-pop-culture, corporate
>>imperialism and conspiracy theories. And it’s so effortlessly
>>evocative of its psychedelic milieu, it puts paid to the notion that
>>if one remembers the 60s one wasn’t there. Pynchon clearly was.
>>
>>http://www.list.co.uk/article/18756-thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice/
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