Inherent Vice: Times Online Review

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A-and we must not forget: the extensive use of the lonely punctuation mark: 
the colon: in AtD....Of course, TRP doesn't use the colon randomly, as I 
have done here.~


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "János Székely" <miksaapja at gmail.com>
To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: Inherent Vice: Times Online Review


> "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
>>
>
>


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