Is the Paul Anderson Pynchon's Inherent Vice the Next Big Lebowski

[Michael Bailey]

Laura wrote:
> Ditto.  I really want a book of personal essays by Pynchon.  Oh, and a billion dollars and world peace would be nice too.
>

ok, I guess there were 2 misgivings and a not unreasonable hope behind that:

a) you know how Salinger reacted when they made a movie out of Uncle
Wiggily in Connecticut
even though it wasn't a bad movie by any reasonable standards, it was
(of course, and predictably) not the same artistic vision


b) more fundamentally, just wanted to grumble a little in favor of books
over films


...and the hope, which I really don't think all that unreasonable, is
that there really might be another book in the offing.


However, we've certainly not exhausted the possibilities of the extant
oeuvre, and Inherent Vice the movie might be a lot of fun.