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to: Inherent Vice (Hardcover)byThomas Pynchon bookshelves: postmodern
Everyone is calling "Inherent Vice" Pynchon-Lite, but I think a more fitting way to think of it is "the lighter side of Thomas Pynchon." Really, "Inherent Vice" is a wonderful, hilarious, and almost candid opportunity to somewhat more easily digest many of the crucial themes that have preoccupied Pynchon since "V." This novel is also a fabulous period piece as well as a poignant critique of our society that extends far beyond L.A. in 1970. Indeed, the principle behind an inherent vice strikes me one of the most succinct ways of getting to the core of Pynchon's view of society, culture, and experience:
"It was as if whatever had happened had reached some kind of limit. It was like finding the gateway to the past unguarded, unforbidden because it didn't have to be. Built into the act of return finally was this glittering mosaic of doubt. Something like what Sauncho's colleagues in maritime insurance liked to call inherent vice. 'Is that like original sin?' Doc wondered. 'It's what you can't avoid,' Sauncho said..."
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Perhaps the greatest satire on war, "Catch-22" presents many characters with extraordinary personalities, the most important of whom is Yossarian. Witty and cunning, he constantly tries not to avoid being killed while serving his duty in WWII. He meets many people and goes trough many trials in this book. One such trial occurs very early in the book and uses the book's title phrase Yossarian finds a catch in the system that says that soldiers will be sent home who are crazy enough not to fly an airplane into combat. The doctor tells Yossarian that he must first tell him that he is crazy, and then must have someone vouch for his insanity.
Yossarian assumes that he will be dismissed, but the Doc adds one more stipulation: if someone asks not to fly because they are crazy, they can't be crazy because anyone who doesn't want to die must be sane. This, Doc Daneeka notes, is a catch-22. The phrase "catch-22" now appears in the dictionary because of this book. If that fact does not suggest the importance of this book, I don't know what will.
This book is funny from beginning to end. It shows a lighter side of war. Most books don't refer to the human struggle during wartime but "Catch-22" uses humor to show how the conflicts between one man and the solders fighting along side him affect him in war. This book will be able to make you laugh about some very serious issues that effected people during WWII.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Paperback)
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