![]() ![]() 4, 2009 For better and worse, this is the closest Pynchon is likely to come to a beach book. ![]() READ REVIEW 0 INHERENT VICE by Thomas Pynchon RELEASE DATE: Aug. The drugs and the music were so great." And you were like, "Ah, fucking hell, enough of that!" I think what they were on about wasn't necessarily the drugs or the music, but the feeling that there was a revolution that was about to happen-though it ultimately fell away and slipped through their fingers. Groovier than much of this erratic author’s fiction, but a bummer compared with his best. Aside from the dopily lovable Doc, everyone is just the standard tangle of. You'd hear them talk about the 60s like, "Oh man, it was so great. The characters in Inherent Vice are not only paranoid, they walk around constantly talking about their paranoia. I was only a kid in the 1970s, and my parents weren't hippies, but I'd get nauseated by my parents' friends who were. But the era was kind of new to me, and that was exciting. ![]() It's home, so that part of it was very appealing, to work in these places that I knew very well. The fact that it was California felt right to me for sure. Los Angeles at that time was a little bit hazier because there was so much smog, so we also tried to give it a little bit of that look. We just tried to be accurate in terms of what people were wearing and what people looked like. I wanted it to feel like it was from that time, to try and make it feel authentic to that era, almost like it was a kind of faded postcard-a picture you might see of your parents in a drawer that's faded in color a little bit. This story that Pynchon was telling was obviously autobiographical and from his generation and from his heart. ![]()
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