Inherent Vice: Times Online Review

[János Székely]

"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."

Could be said about GR, too. Except for Manson, but . . . but . . .

János

2009/7/25 Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
> 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
>