Inherent Vice by Thomas PynchonMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I finished reading this book on Sunday, May 11, 2025 at 12:00 p.m.
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🌴 Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
The only reason I read this was because of Alan Palomo. I mentioned it in the site I made about him.
I was browsing the shelves of the Cesar Chavez Library and saw this audiobook CD. I've had this book in my TBR list forever and decided to bring it home. Then I listened to it on my personal DVD player and CD player alongside an Ebook on Libby. Then I put the actual book version on hold from the Glendale library. It wasn't held until I was 75% done with the book. To be honest, it was only like background noise because I am not usually into these types of books. But during my reading sessions I did hear some WOH references!
“My parents saw us locked into a dismal slavery, but Coy and I, all we saw was the freedom—from that endless middle-class cycle of choices that are no choices at all—a world of hassle reduced to the one simple issue of scoring” (32).
That is the title of Alan Palomo’s new album!
“‘Please. They can subpoena you. They have permanent grand juries that have been known to indict a bean burrito. They can put you in a world of headache’” (190).
This phrase reminded me of Alan Palomo’s song called “Big Night of Heartache”.
“Something like what Sauncho’s colleagues in marine insurance liked to call inherent vice” (241).
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