INHERENT VICE by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press, 2009)
Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice is a countercultural spoof of the hard-boiled Chandleresque crime genre full of shaggy dog tales of private dick and dope fiend Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello on the trail of kidnapping related murders and other related misdemeanours.
Red herrings and false trails abound and I quickly tired of trying to find any twisted logic to proceedings.
This trippy novel is no ringing endorsement of drug use but large parts of it seem to have been written while under the influence of some substance or other. Continue reading
