Inherent Vice: Times Online Review

[John Bailey]

That review is worth checking for the image they've selected alone.
Maybe it's just me who finds it funny.

Otherwise, it's full of spoilers (though weirdly chosen and kind of
misleading ones).

The reviewer's problem seems to be summed up thusly:

"Excess is the recurring failure here. There’s also too much druggy
humour, too many nubile women throwing themselves at men, too many
mentions of the cult-leader killer Charles Manson, and too many
sentences ending in ellipses."

Clearly not a fan, then.

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Times Online is not exactly enthralled:
>
>        . . .Gone, though, are the discipline and cohesion of his early
>        fiction. It’s a sad irony that a novel whose analysis of Reagan’s
>        California seems to centre on forces (business, law
>        enforcement, violence) being out of control should itself have so
>        marked a control problem.
>
> The rest . . .                   . . . of the story:
>
> http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article6723526.ece
>