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Originally Posted by kennyc
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I'm a long time reader of Pynchon and I'm still on the fence with Inherent Vice. But I didn't think it was that atypical. As a crime story the plot is almost impossible to follow and it's got Pynchon's usual theme--the co-option of the counterculture (potheads, dropouts, slackers=good, The Man=bad). Inherent Vice is probably best read as the third part of an unofficial "California trilogy" along with The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland, which I think is sort of under-rated.