Stacy's Rant

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Craig Duckett wrote:

> I want to thank those p-listers a few
> weeks back who were talking about William T. Vollmann. I went out and bought
> Butterfly Stories, and now I'm hooked. Just recently purchased The Rainbow
> Stories, Whores for Gloria, 13 Stories & 13 Epitaphs, The Rifles, The Ice
> Shirt, and The Atlas, and ordered his latest, The Royal Family, from Amazon.
> What amazes me is I never heard of Vollmann until some of the p-list side
> chatter. That in and off itself is worth the price of admission ;-)

That's like with me and Wallace's Infinite Jest of a while back. Some
p-listers were reading it including Will Layman. But for that reason I'd
never have picked it up. And I liked it a lot.


Does anyone but me find book recommendations of others fairly
unlikely to hit pay dirt? Having one favorite book or author in common
doesn't work out to having others. Not so strange, I guess.

		P.