Reading Inherent Vice

"arrived"

I just started it after finishing I.V.!

there's no one vineland thread, but it is mentioned on every other pynchon thread

Dark Shadows appears to be torrentable - worth a go?

this book was a total gas. funny and great and a quick read, too.

Very pleasantly surprised. Many of the reviews I read seemed unfavorable, so I thought I might not enjoy it, but it is definitely my favorite Pynchon so far. Makes me want to re-read Vineland, my first Pynchon. I picked up Against the Day at the library, but I don't think I will stick with it. Also picked up Mason & Dixon, another passed over Pynchon.

passed over Pynchon

lol.

Scored the library copy of this the other day and will hope to give it a read soon...

The guy has gotten better at writing last sentences since GR.

Read it while on vacation, laughed my head off. Great fun and sad in all the right ways too. Pretty much the book that most leapt to mind while reading it was City of Quartz.

[i]Makes me want to re-read Vineland</>

This is exactly what I am doing. I liked VL just fine the first time around but now it seems even better. I've never understood why it's not highly regarded. Is it just because it isn't GV2?

I mean GR2 of course.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/paul_thomas_anderson_looks_to_adapt_thomas_pychons_inherent_vice_with_rober/

that could be cool! i am actually reading this right now -- lots of funny stuff, though the plot itself seems to be getting in the way. love all the south bay content -- the book basically takes place right where I grew up!

Yeah, this could work really well.

Blimey. Hope this actually sees the light of day.

yeah tbh, not holding my breath for it -- seems like a lot of variables that could easily fall through. does anyone know if pynchon has been opposed in the past to film adaptations, or is it that no one in their right mind has thought to try? other than the phenomenal V TV miniseries of course.

Closest thing to my mind mind was the time he was supposed to "appear" on The John Larroquette Show (which fell through):

The show made several passing references to Pynchon, but the most specifically “Pynchonian” episode was Episode 11, airing in 1994 and titled “Newcomer.” Guest-starring David Crosby, the plot had Hemingway’s new girlfriend joining Alcoholics Anonymous and swearing off sex for six months. At one point, reference was made to a “Pynchon sighting,” describing the reclusive author as wearing a Roky Erickson T-shirt[...]

wonder waht happened to pta's scientology film...

Was excited until I saw RDJ's name.

does anyone know if pynchon has been opposed in the past to film adaptations, or is it that no one in their right mind has thought to try?

Well the rights have been sold, right?

other than the phenomenal V TV miniseries of course.

Does this actually exist?

think it's a joek - failed sci-fi thing

wonder waht happened to pta's scientology film...

http://www.movieline.com/2010/09/paul-thomas-andersons-scientology-film-gets-indefinitely-postponed.php

I was really looking forward to this too.

What do you mean you "wonder what happened", pretty sure the Hollywood scientologists with the power made it not happen.

think it's a joek - failed sci-fi thing
haha yeah, just kidding.

it's been so long since i read the word 'hardon' in print, it looks like some kind of CERN discovery

so wait . . . this is filming?

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77484/sean-penn-might-do-pynchon-for-paul-thomas-anderson

That is an excellent cast.

Groovy set pix

Has Joaquin Phoenix ever done comedy? Feel like he's all wrong for this.

After seeing The Master and going solely on Gravity's Rainbow (only Pynchon I've read besides Lot 49), I feel like Joaquin and PTA are a solid pair for a Pynchon adapt. Don't know much about IV, so if it's a different beast entirely n/m.

so excited 4 this

Cast looks solid for the exception of Reese Witherspoon

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/josh-brolin-says-inherent-vice-goes-in-a-direction-that-the-book-doesnt-necessarily-go-20140329

I wish they had gotten unknown actors

https://31.media.tumblr.com/5a9ca5590be6f887581ff143968be338/tumblr_n49kou5MXC1s7e2fco1_500.jpg

after his performance in Her, I am confident JP can bring it

I wonder if we'll ever see a film of Gravity's Rainbow

12-hour anime

I've got it all planned out actually. It's either a 12-hour anime, or a 2-hour episode of Xavier: Renegade Angel, with Xavier as Slothrop

I'm planning a 7-season tv-series called P, combining every Pynchon-novel into one long historical saga. It combines The Whole Sick Crew with the hippie-plot from Vineland, and has Stencil searching through history for the mysterious P, with a lot of help from the memoirs of the Frenesi, Bodine, Cherrycoke and Slothrop families. It's going to be awesome!

You forgot the Traverses!

Oh, crap. Frenesi is the first name, Traverse second. You're right!

Stuck halfway through M&D, don't know how I'm going to finish it (then AtD and Inherent Vice and I've batted the cycle)

I've done all the epics, but can't bring myself to read the shorter ones, or really any other novels by anyone else. It's terrible, and great.

AtD is probably, IMO, 90% as good as GR, and superior to M&D (a controversial opinion perhaps). All three are beyond other literature I may have tried to read.

M&D is so episodic and splintered that it's surely easy to read a chapter or two a day and not lose track? ATD is much more coherent, accumulative, beastly & deranged - good fucken luck with that one ;)

I have Inherent Vice at home and will certainly read it before watching the movie.

Thanks, imago. Maybe I'll just read 10 pages at a time, sounds less daunting! Glad to hear AtD is good

so this is fun

into the inner jacket reflecting pink fluorescent light at me

my favorite parts so far are bambi and jade.

"parts"