"Hilarious and thought-provoking" (London Review of Books)

"Brilliant and brain boggling by turns" (Daily Mail)

"Inherent Vice works brilliantly as both a neon-lit noir and as a psychedelic lament to the Sixties" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Pynchon's unique blend of wackiness and wistfulness permeates every page. He uses words as carefully as Nabokov. Inherent Vice works brilliantly as both a neon-lit neo-noir and as a psychedelic lament to the Sixties" (Sunday Telegraph)

"The greatest, wildest author of his generation" (Guardian)