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    <body><![CDATA[Extraordinarily entertaining novel of a pot-head detective in LA ca. 1971.   It’s part Raymond Chandler, part Cheech and Chong and all TRP.  <br/><br/>I think you just have to read it to know.   It's not particularly nostalgic unless you were there.  There are lots of characters with odd names, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67595534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone is calling &quot;Inherent Vice&quot; Pynchon-Lite, but I think a more fitting way to think of it is &quot;the lighter side of Thomas Pynchon.&quot; Really, &quot;Inherent Vice&quot; is a wonderful, hilarious, and almost candid opportunity to somewhat more easily digest many of the crucial t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76745023">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pity the book editor charged with assigning Thomas Pynchon's latest novel, writes the <em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em>, since &quot;&quot;[i:]t's enough to drive a reviewer to ingest assorted substances then flip on the Cartoon Network.&quot;&quot; Pynchon, the incorrigible recluse whose name has become synon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73292871">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this better than anything Pynchon's written since Gravity's Rainbow. Pynchon's not much of a novelist in the classic sense: his plots are byzantine rambling wrecks in which loose ends are never tied up; his women are all &quot;sexy chicks&quot; or older female relatives; you can barely tell ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72928668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Caveat: I read this while recovering from oral surgery, doped out on codeine. So I was probably easier on it than I would otherwise be. <br/><br/>Most people probably know by now that this is 'Pynchon-lite' or some such thing. It was reviewed in Entertainment Weekly, for god's sake. And, in my add...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72911986">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon<br/><br/>This sunny, breezy novel is an odd duck,-- self-consciously, one has to assume. A genre book that never really seems to subvert or upend the form, Pynchon's latest book remains true to the author's long-established tropes and ticks while staying refreshingl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70790687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Convoluted but not daunting. Silly and funny but not a comedy. Noir, but &quot;light&quot; (there is darkness all around but it is never embraced by the heart of the book). Yes - it runs into some themes he's visited before (In &quot;The Crying of Lot 49&quot;) and yes it offers a stylistic departur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70313896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[California detective trips from one altered state to the next while investigating an intricate hash of crime. By the end, true to his genre, the protagonist dispenses the small measure of justice that he may and then rides off into the fog.<br/><br/><em>Inherent Vice</em>’s straightforward prose and ligh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70251158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Super duper fun! Reminds me a ton of Crying of Lot 49, though. Pynchon sure gets California culture. Louis Menand's review in the New Yorker underestimates its seriousness, which is annoying, although his description of it as &quot;self-consciously laid-back&quot; is pretty right on. That's no insul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69475730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a sucker for chatter and August has been lousy with chatter about Thomas Pynchon's &quot;Inherent Vice.&quot; New York Magazine found it too busy; The Washington Post calls it a &quot;page turner&quot; and a &quot;comfort book,&quot; Entertainment Weekly got distracted by the author's name in ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68573862">more...</a>]]></body>
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