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>>8260117
I saw the movie, it was a confused mess, but fun, I guess.
I HAVE read other pinecone
>>8260117
What? Are you shitposting or are you going to elaborate on your confusion?
CONSPIRACIES LOL
They're waking me up from my bad hippy dream.
>>8260117
It's about the turn from the 60s into the 70s when things got deeply weird and sinister. Time itself is inherent vice.
>>8260184
Deep
>>8260184
The paragraph about the fist of the 70s crushing the happy adventures of the 60s is seriously underrated.
You got Pynch'ed.
Really disliked it
I should've started it without any expectations but from what I heard about Gravity's Rainbow I thought I was going to get something a bit complex, so probably a bad idea for this to be my first pynchon book
But honestly it just read like an action movie script written by hunter s thompson
The perfect example of a book underrated by pseuds.
>>8262119
Have not read Vineland but is it possible that this is because hippy culture was often defined by people not truly committed to dream of the 60s of personal freedom? Cause Inherent Vice seems to be about the death of that dream because people are too inherently greedy and power hungry too sustain it.
>mfw confused throughout the entire book
i understood more in Gravity's Rainbow even. maybe it was all the dialogue
I'm planning on read this next. I loved Gravity's Rainbow and the movie even though I did understand what was happening.
The movie was hilarious and I didn't really try to pay too much attention because I want to save that for when I read the book. It still had that Pynchon vibe and reminded my of TCOL49.
>>8260117
>mfw i know what pynchon is referencing in the title
>>8262299
Sorta. He thinks they basically sold out and become yuppie scum, or are naive dumbasses, alsoit was co-opted from the start
>>8262608
PTA left a lot out of Inherent Vice. I don't know if that was intentional or due to the constraints of Hollywood. I'm really hoping he's cut a 5 hour cut that will get a Criterion release.