Inherent Vice: Times Online Review

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sat Jul 25 01:49:52 CDT 2009


On Jul 24, 2009, at 11:37 PM, John Bailey wrote:

> Clearly not a fan, then.

The reviewer's so full of shit, they ought to name a porta-potty after  
him. Unfortunately, the review's unsigned.

On Jul 24, 2009, at 11:44 PM, János Székely wrote:

> "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 . . .

Could be said about any of Pynchon's books. And Manson's the piss on  
the rug that tied the whole story together.

If you don't like ellipses, you won't like Pynchon.



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