BlogCritics Review of Inherent Vice

[Campbel Morgan]

The BlogCritic misquotes the famous opening of GR. Not good when you
consider his audience and purpose. That is, he's writing for people
who read Pynchon and his purpose is to argue that GR was Pynchon's
masterwork and his latest, if not everything he's writtem after GR,
doesn't measure up. Well, call me Ahab, but I think he needs to get
that opening line right.

Play it, Sam.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Carvill, John<john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:
> This not been posted yet? Don't think so... IV review on BlogCritics, by
> Gordon Hauptfleisch:
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> "In Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon forgoes some gravitas to chase - well,
> meander without necessarily cutting to the chase - a few rainbows.
> Offering us the unique experience of late sixties psychedelic noir with
> trademark oppressive paranoia and kaleidoscopic pop culture references -
> from Gummo Marx to Mike Curb, and a dopers' roundtable discussion of
> sorts of American versus English zombies - Pynchon seems to cavalierly
> create a vastly amusing, enjoyable but convoluted narrative where the
> dots are virtually impossible to follow ("And would this be multiple
> choice?" he understandingly interjects at one point), and the life
> portrayed is oftentimes absurd. And why not? After all, Pynchon once
> said, maybe his fiction is "not the world, but with a minor adjustment
> or two it's what the world might be." Zombies and all....."
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> http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas
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