Soaring flights of fancy

[Dave Monroe]

Soaring flights of fancy

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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (available at National Bookstore):
This ode to the late 1960s follows the thought of “If you do remember,
then you really weren’t there” and it’s Thomas Pynchon playing pied
piper with a crime novel that’s like no other. Eschewing graphic
violence, this seminal author of such classics as Gravity’s Rainbow
and V, has groovy and psychedelic Doc Sporello as the center of his
novel. Ostensibly a homage to Raymond Chandler’s LA novels, this one
reads like Sam Spade on drugs and mind-altering substances. A woman
(there’s always one, isn’t there?) named Shasta is the muse, and the
fleeting impression we get of her, reflects back on how this epoch is
as substantial as a cloud! It’s Pynchon having fun with his memories.

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