Inherent Vice (4 stars)

[John Bailey]

If anyone has ever come across a review of a Pynchon novel that comes
close to spoiling the experience of reading one, I'd suggest avoiding
IV previews.

I've never found one.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:29 AM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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)
>>>
>>>Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice (4 stars)
>>>
>>>    * Source: The List (Issue 633)
>>>    * Date: 9 July 2009
>>>    * Written by: Miles Fielder
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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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