6/23/2023 0 Comments Inherent Vice by Thomas PynchonImagine Your Favorite Raymond Chandler Or James Crumley Mystery Retold As A Hippie Whodunit, Set In Gordita Beach, Calif., At The Very End Of The 1960s. Imagine The Cult Film The Big Lebowski As A Novel, With Touches Of Chinatown And L.a. These Majestic Works Are More Than Worth The Effort, But They Aren't What Most People Would Call Page-turners Or Comfort Books. Assaults On Such Everests Require Not Only The Usual Climbing Gear - Pitons And Belaying Ropes And What All - But Also Oxygen Canisters And Sherpa Guides, As Well. Such Imposing Epics As Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon And The Recent Against The Day Daunt Even The Most Rugged Readers. Nonetheless, Pynchon Has Often Been - At Least Until Inherent Vice - A Writer More Admired Than Loved. Fans Even Collect The Few Books For Which He Has Given A Dust-jacket Blurb. Fog.the Washington Post - Michael Dirdafor More Than 45 Years, Thomas Pynchon Has Been The Hidden God Of Modern Letters, Rarely Photographed, Never Interviewed, But Nonetheless Revered And Worshiped, His Name Pronounced By The Devoted With A Hiccup Of Pure Awe: Thomas, Gulp, Pynchon. Part Noir, Part Psychedelic Romp, All Thomas Pynchon Private Eye Doc Sportello Comes, Occasionally, Out Of A Marijuana Haze To Watch The End Of An Era As Free Love Slips Away And Paranoia Creeps In With The L.
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