A review by chrysemys
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

3.0

Not very Pynchonian... by that I mean I was able to mostly follow it and the number of characters was almost manageable. It was kind of fun, although not what you'd call gripping. A big gripe I have about the book is that the mention of specific locales in (mostly westside) LA is gratuitous/excessive, somehow self-indulgent and ultimately disruptive- the specific locations had nothing to do with the plot and, as a former resident of that area, I kept trying to envision them as they appear currently, which doesn't help, either.