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Still got four pages to read in this thread, but I just wanted to pipe after recently watching Inherent Vice (never read the book), how much it reminds me of the other Pynchon books I've read. I've never found a book of his actually cohering together, so the endings I find are always lack luster, but there are always some great gold in the very, very long story, some great humor, and a general embrace of a vaguely threatening magical realist world. I'm basically saying Inherent Vice is way more Pinchon than it is Anderson. So while I'm not eager to see the movie again, but there was moving/interesting chunks of it that by themselves were quite entertaining. EDIT: Just a little more on this, when I think of good Pynchon, I think of individual scenes, threads, or even characters. Like, Against the Day is worthwhile for Webb Traverse and the utterly heart-breaking and profound battle against mine interests in the Rocky Mountains. Or in Bleeding Edge, how wonderfully engaging and rootable Maxine turned to be. Too bad the rest kind of washes out for me, based on length and lack of a discernable point. Its definitely NOT novels I can see myself recommending, unless you're interested in reading sections only a few pages long. Shageletic fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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