Status Updates From Inherent Vice

Best part about reading a Pynchon book is how there are an equal amount of jokes that don’t land as jokes that do. I don’t know whether or not I’m being serious.

“Ask you something, Doc?”
“Long as it ain’t the capital of South Dakota, sure.”
Ugh

I believe this is the third time I’m trying to read this book (according to my records, I checked this out in 2019 and 2021). Every time I’ve bounce hard and fast, despite this being a hippie send-up of Chandler (the big reason for that is because we already have the hippie send-up of Chandler—The Big Lebowski).

I think I’ve finally started to click with Pynchon’s late style, so I have hopes for this