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A review by pwest10
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
challenging
medium-paced
4.25
Reading this book at times rewound my entire existence, to a time in which I was four years old. I would pick up a book from my parents bookshelves, and I would feel mass confusion about the fact that there wasn't a picture to be found in their book.
I would go through page after page of small hieroglyphs, in wonder of how anyone could make heads or tails of anything they see. Slowly but surely however, I would recognize a word in that ocean of symbology. Of. And. The.
Over time, words would start forming like a white cap on a windy day. Eventually, I wasn't stuck in the middle of the ocean, I was in a world created entirely between my ears. Words created a world in which will never see the light of day, not be seen the same way by anyone else.
This is a lot of words to say, there is a lot to unpack in this, and I honestly felt that I only scratched the surface of it. Which isn't a bad thing by any means in this case. The timing in which events happened felt very deliberate, although there were times it felt like things were breaking up bigger parts of the story awkwardly.
In a broad sense, the story follows a PI who is visited by an ex, about the kidnapping of a billionaire. This leads to a series of uncovering events, which I think I followed all the way through. By the end of it I am pretty sure I understood what happened, but following everything certainly did a number on my mind.
I'm happy that I own this book forever. I will certainly be more in depth and attentive in my next read through, and having the headstart of some knowledge of the book I believe will help me in the next read to understand a bit more.
I would go through page after page of small hieroglyphs, in wonder of how anyone could make heads or tails of anything they see. Slowly but surely however, I would recognize a word in that ocean of symbology. Of. And. The.
Over time, words would start forming like a white cap on a windy day. Eventually, I wasn't stuck in the middle of the ocean, I was in a world created entirely between my ears. Words created a world in which will never see the light of day, not be seen the same way by anyone else.
This is a lot of words to say, there is a lot to unpack in this, and I honestly felt that I only scratched the surface of it. Which isn't a bad thing by any means in this case. The timing in which events happened felt very deliberate, although there were times it felt like things were breaking up bigger parts of the story awkwardly.
In a broad sense, the story follows a PI who is visited by an ex, about the kidnapping of a billionaire. This leads to a series of uncovering events, which I think I followed all the way through. By the end of it I am pretty sure I understood what happened, but following everything certainly did a number on my mind.
I'm happy that I own this book forever. I will certainly be more in depth and attentive in my next read through, and having the headstart of some knowledge of the book I believe will help me in the next read to understand a bit more.