BlogCritics Review of Inherent Vice

[David Morris]

I think you're picking nits because you don't like the thesis *you say* he
promotes: "to argue" that all of Pynchon's works following GR don't measure
up [to GR] (which I think is undeniably true).

  He paraphrases the GR opener, only to keep the "quote" grammatically in
line with his sentence.  He actually praises IV, while noting that it hasn't
the gravitas of GR, something any reviewer of IV would be required to
state.  And he notes that while the jury regarding MD and AtD may still be
out (notably he doesn't include VL), he thinks it is clear that IV won't
help any judgement in favor of either in history's eyes.
David Morris
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Campbel Morgan <campbelmorgan at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> > http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas
>
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