Inherent vice 2

And it's this exhaustive rambling that I had mentioned before that starts to bring up similarities. The style and content of Pynchon's novel seems to be a cross between a book that would be by the late Hunter S Thompson and a Coen brothers movie. Of course this book seems to be a bit more humorous and lighthearted than the obsurd ridiculousness of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. How Pynchon is able to capture the essence of a certain time and place,such as LA at the tail end of the sixties, is an impressive feat.