Parochial Plea

[rich]

On 9/29/09, tbeshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:

>
> That's one of the reasons I was disappointed the voters in the Millions poll
> showed no love for "Europe Central" by William T. Vollmann, a novel by an
> American that's immersed in Germany and Russia and in which America is most
> notable for its absence and irrelevance.
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I devour loads of shit about the Eastern Front and for some reason I
found Europe Central very dull. I had just read Life and Fate a few
yrs before that and guess my mind kept going back to that book with
its mostly everyday family of people unlike Vollman's soldiers,
artists and VIPs. alot more to connect to in the Grossman novel (btw,
a new english translation of Forever Flowing is being published soon I
think) than reading Vollman's research which is what I think EC
amounted to

rich