The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo...

[Brock Vond]

2666 was so fantastic in my opinion, obviously.  Its one of the best books
I've ever read.

Grossman's Black Book will be checked out for sure.  Thanks


On 1/20/09 11:15 AM, "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/17/09, Brock Vond <wilsonistrey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> snip
>> I did want to get it sooner because I wanted to get it out of the way so I
>> can enjoy The Kindly Ones.
>> 
>> Anyone else can't wait for The Kindly Ones?
>> 
> ----------
> i'm looking forward to reading it as well--the next big book to tackle
> for me after finishing 2666. In some weird way, the story parallels
> the story of Vassily Grossman's nonfiction writings about WW2 from the
> Russian side--at Stalingrad, at scenes of mass murder, in Berlin at
> the end.
> If one is ambitious take a look at Grossman's Black Book (which he
> co-wrote/compiled)--the first descriptions of what the Nazis were up
> to on the Eastern Front--very grim reading which strangely is like the
> litany of murders as described by Bolano in 2666 in St Theresa. (of
> course, there are scenes on the eastern front in that book, too)  lots
> of correspondences....
> 
> rich