Inherent Vice review: The Second Pass

[Joe Allonby]

There's an old saying among musicians : Never condescend to a cover,
it will bite you in the ass.

Seems to be part of this guy's take on things and Pynchon comes out
looking good with his ass unbitten.

In all this noir-detective talk nobody's mentioned Andrew Vachs, or
maybe I just missed it while out of town and skimming or just ranting
about class rage.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>        . . .That he somehow manages to embody all of this in a noir
>        thriller in which everyone is connected by tentacles of paranoia
>        and conspiracy explains why Inherent Vice, an act of minor
>        Pynchon, is still major enough. In a novel pervaded by
>        darkness, its spirits are as high as many of its characters.
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> http://thesecondpass.com/?p=2089
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