IVIV book review: "probably as close to getting stoned as reading a novel can be."

[Doug Millison]

"The experience of reading the novel is probably as close to getting  
stoned as reading a novel can be. It brings on fits of the giggles and  
paranoia jags, and badly messes with your short-term memory: the plot,  
as ever with Pynchon, is bewilderingly hard to follow, the plethora of  
characters almost impossible to keep track of without taking notes (as  
it happens, Doc’s a bit of a compulsive notetaker, to help compensate  
for his doper’s memory). It doesn’t, however, make you fall asleep or,  
despite the many descriptions of the consumption of every conceivable  
variety of fast food, give you the munchies."

Call It Capitalism by Thomas Jones
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n17/jone01_.html