Any Vollmann fans here? Is the abridged edition of Rising Up and Rising Down worth it?
Any Vollmann fans here? Is the abridged edition of Rising Up and Rising Down worth it?
Jack Edwards
Jackson Taylor
I have some Vollmann books in my collection but I've never gotten the chance to read him. What is it 'like' to read his books? I have Europe Central, Last Stories and Other Stories (I think it's called) and The Dying Grass. I'm thinking of reading The Dying Grass because it seems the most adhd-friendly/easy for me to read due to it's formatting.
Sebastian Baker
I only have The Rainbow Stories by him. Good place to start or should I get something more accessible like Europe Central?
Asher Johnson
Oh yeah I also have a digital copy of Whores for Gloria
Levi Green
you just randomly have 3 vollmann books but you've read none?
Anthony Evans
>Any Vollmann fans here?
no, he's a fucking faggot
Dylan Campbell
I collect books by various authors but I haven't read each author I have books for.
Ryder Nguyen
Rainbow Stories is the best place to start. that or whores for gloria.
Carter Martin
>The Dying Grass
That book is excellent, I can see Dying Grass and Fathers and Crows growing a cult following if it finds a bigger audience. People who love Mason & Dixon, surrealism, magic realism, postmodern techniques, myth and legend, and metafiction should for sure give them a try.
Hudson Bennett
there is only one question: is he a good stylist
"surrealism magic realism post modern metafiction" smells like doggie doodoo to me. can he write an ENGLISH SENTENCE
Bentley Bennett
When you speak like that it makes it seem you think there’s a specific form of English sentence that’s the right form of English sentence to speak. That doesn’t make much sense though, does it?
Oliver King
yes, there is. English soaked in Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Keats, Dickens, Poe, Wilde, etcetera = good. everything else = bad, shit, waste of time.
Wyatt Lopez
Not him but that etcetera and that everything else might as well could be the same lol
Brody Fisher
I only read books by attractive authors.
Kayden Mitchell
You're not going to fuck them.
Luke Hughes
oh fuck off with your "could be" the line of my taste is obvious from the main examples listed
Ian Howard
I can’t imagine people find you very charming if you want sentences simply soaking in those old men’s ink and spit.
Jordan Smith
I have a signed copy of the Royal Family
Kayden King
it's not really that clear... do you, for example, like faulkner? lovecraft? melville? woolf? poe is nothing like shakespeare and milton is not like wilde.
Christopher King
what a lovely image. your equivocation earlier aroused my suspicions but this removes all doubt.
>poe is nothing like shakespeare and milton is not like wilde.
you're blowing my mind. I read Dorian Gray after Paradise Lost and said to myself, "these could have been written by the same guy"
sigh. once again i am under attack by the philistine horde
Evan Ward
>I read Dorian Gray after Paradise Lost and said to myself, "these could have been written by the same guy"
no, you did not say that. stop memeing.
Luke Miller
How do you know?
Liam Butler
>stop memeing
now THAT I will not do
Thomas James
They told me they just saw you as a friend :/
Brandon Morales
REEEEEEE
Not a fan. I have a few of his books but they're fucking dreadful tbhwydesu. I'm not so fucking fortunate and privileged to be impressed by Vollman's slumming stories.