NP Vollmann's "Europe Central"

[jd]

3 out of 5, mainly for the effort.

On 7/3/06, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 3 stars out of a total possible ?
>
> I think maybe Vollmann learned a little lesson about listening to his
> editor.  EC could have stood a little editing but not that much; I
> only felt bogged down in a couple of the longer chapters.   Also,
> Vollmann mentioned somewhere, the beginning of the Notes (?),   that
> he had failed to convince his editor of the need for his chronology
> (which I would have found helpful).
>
> Bekah
>
>
> At 3:38 PM -0400 7/3/06, jd wrote:
> >I'd probably give this a three star
> >rating...  simply because the beginning was pretty decent and Vollmann
> >certainly isn't a SHITTY writer, just maybe one, at least in this
> >book, who should have known better when to turn the computer off
> >instead of wailing away at tangents and repetition.
>
> >That said I'm still interested in Europe Central and I certainly enjoy
> >Rising Up and Rising Down (while repetitive, and a lot of it doesn't
> >really seem to impart a good knowledge of history and instead sort of
> >conveys good sound bytes for general good logic, it works far better
> >there and I have a lot of hope for the last two books, which are sort
> >of "case studies" it sounds like, and looks to be very interesting).
>