E_D_Guapo
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Inherent Vice is very accessible, IMO. It's pretty goofy and when I first started reading it the kind of beach bum/hippie vernacular seemed a bit much to me, but I got used to it. I haven't read much of Pynchon's earlier writings (I've mostly tackled his epics like Gravity's Rainbow, Mason and Dixon, and Against the Day) but from what I understand Inherent Vice has more in common with those books.[MENTION=38]E_D_Guapo[/MENTION]
I've only ever read a few of Pynchon's short stories and The Crying of Lot 49, which I really liked.
I've heard Inherent Vice is more accessible than some of his other novels, and I've thought about giving it a shot. I take it you'd recommend it?
It's kind of a noirish LA detective story except set in 1970 with a stoner beach bum detective rather than a hard-boiled, bourbon slugging private eye of 1930s noir. Someone wrote the line "The Big Lebowski meets The Big Sleep" and that is an excellent simplified description of what can be expected from this book. Well worth reading, IMO.
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