Pynchon/Vollmann

[gp]

Europe Central is winning me back to Vollmann, but I think there's
still a good deal of excess material, or perhaps better put, the right
amount of material that is sometimes excessively written about - i.e.
he comes up with an interesting concept and then goes on with it for
ten pages, but by page two or three I've got the point and the rest
seems like a sort of repetition.  It is infinitely better than The
Royal Family, however.  I'm only around 200 pages in though, and
considering that there's, er, a certain looming 900 pages to go of
AtD, I think it's going to have to wait.

On 11/22/06, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Vollmann's "Europe Central" was the best novel I've read this year,
> along with David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas."
>
> I don't care for influences, but from a literary point of view
> Vollmann's novel is a very valuable addition to GR in writing about
> WW-2 and totalitarianism.
>