Greil Marcus vs. Inherent Vice

[rich]

I don't think Pynchon mentions the Beatles breakup in IV does he? that's
sorta hard to believe the stamp of an end of an era would not come up in
conversation, no? (I've been perusing You Never Give Your Money about the
breakup and aftermath) maybe Pynchon thought it's too obvious and not
subtle enough?

I think for me IV came at the wrong time which I won't bore you
with--personal life sharing is a bit like a really bad striptease. there
are bits of the book, small insights, paragraphs which retain his eclectic
genius status but man was his acid dream descriptions very pedestrian. he's
an old dude now I get it he's done his bit, nothing left to prove. and in
the end the problem is with us not him (queue up Positively 4th Street)

rich



On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> You guys are tough critics. I liked  the IV bit. I thought the LA woman
> thing was overdone, but for a compact review it covered more than many and
> pointed to the darker crimes taking place in LA at the time of Manson which
> some critics didn't appear to notice. The LA Woman thing  also obscured the
> comic parodies. Marcus gets carried away, which is , you know, kinda what
> music is all about. I admit I won't be  checking out the book.
> On Jan 9, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
> >
> http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586489458
> >
> > pp. 17-20
> >
> >
> http://books.google.com/books?id=24qYu2TdomkC&pg=PT17#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
>
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