I love Pynchon for his lyricism, his insanity, and his lack of brevity. Mostly, I love him because his books reflect an image of the way I think (not particulars but in the actual structure) and his books, while most were happily confused, felt like a ride amongst the eaves of my mind.

Just a side note-the best fiction book I read that came out in the last year or so..2666 By Roberto Bolano-fantastic. Pynchon and Bolano are one of the only 'modern' fiction I read.

Great stuff
look forward to getting my hands on this book!

G. Dorje

Although I didn't like it, VINELAND is the Pynchon that I return to the most. This sounds like a good companion-piece. I can't wait to get my hands on the new book, but I have to finish 2666 and my annotated HYPERION SAGA first. So, I should have an opinion on INHERENT VICE sometime late next year.

Great review, Paul. You've got me amped for it.

If I ever start another band, damn if it won't be named Droolin' Floyd Womack!

"Excited, covetous mood." Yep.

"....mmmmmm pulp, the stuff made up of expensive mock trials diverted away from the real address of

' consumer driven art on sides of buildings where only one person on the planet can walk into a bar last night and see the Mariners getting seven to one odds from bookies in Detroit at seven o'clock pm on the west coast while the one man show card was being removed from the reader board at the same time someone else overheard " bush ought to go to jail'. "

Long Live the King....

and,

" Go to hell illegal sports scams for dealer trades in real estate swindles diguised to hide the advertisements of really expensive screen play redirections ".

Vineland is pretty fucking accessible, for the record.

I am stoked about this book, Mason & Dixon was tricky, and I haven't even tried to start Against the Day yet.