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Title: There's homage to Pynchon, and then there's aping Pynchon
Review: Reading this collection brought to mind a review I once read of a film, a paraphrasing of which best sums up this work: this is such a close copy of Thomas Pynchon that it's not plagarism, it's quotation. The extended fugue on Jack Lord and "Hawaii Five-O" in the last story ("Westward...") could've been lifted directly from "Vineland". Overall, the world-weary hipness and extended verbal (literal?) arabesques wore me out. At least Pynchon was genuinely funny, at intervals.
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