I mean, can you believe?
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 11:48:37 CDT 2015
I'm about 1/3 of the way through The Dying Grass and I would have to say
reading all the other seven dreams that have been issued except for most of
Argall that it is very good, if not the best of the lot (as good as Fathers
& Crows which I thought had been the best one) partly at least up to now
the intrusions of william the blind are few and far between. The characters
get to speak more. General O.O. Howard is emerging as a brilliant
portrayal.the fever dream style of incorporating dozens of voices works
well, too.
I'll give you all a review when I'm done reading it.
I havent been enamored of many of his other projects on violence,
prostitutes, california and the poor, etc. guess i need the historical
clothing for richness
rich
rich
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Jan Devenish <jndvnsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I love Vollmann and although he is unnecessarily wordy and hard-going at
> times, his prose is stunning. While lacking the humor of Pynchon, he has a
> deep knowledge of the world and the people in it (Mostly the
> down-trodden). He writes with a journalists realism, but with a deeply
> poetic, evoking Hemingway and Melville. Like walking through beautiful
> treacle, you need to take it slow, but it is enormously rewarding.
> 'The Atlas' and 'The Rainbow Stories' I cannot endorse strongly enough. I
> am yet to tackle the 'Seven Dreams' series, but will do when I work up the
> arm strength to lift them.
>
>
>
> On 21 August 2015 at 17:50, Tommy Pinecone <endaflynn345 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> " NYT raved about Franzen's new book. Is anyone shocked? Would love to
>> see the NYT rave about authors who aren't white male literary darlings."-
>> Jodi Picoult.
>>
>> When being a white male, or a dead European white male, is a derogatory
>> term, you know everything is going down the drain.
>>
>> That article is indicative of everything wrong with contemporary
>> literature. The resentment, female righteousness, mainstream racism and
>> sexism against white men.
>>
>> Franzen shouldn't have to ask why the youth are cynical and resigned,
>> everything is reduced to nonsense nowadays; I would elaborate but there is
>> no need, I hope. But it is always interesting, this lack of perception and
>> discovery of profundity in nonsense. I always wonder how these people would
>> be in a conversation because they often seem to have never had a worthwhile
>> thought or insight into anything.
>>
>> Speaking of which, has anyone read Vollmann? I'd like to find a living
>> writer beyond Pynchon that I can tolerate.
>> On 21 Aug 2015 15:21, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/21/jonathan-franzen-considered-adopting-iraqi-orphan-young-people
>>>
>>> Yeah, writers are not necessarily the humanly best
>>> folk..but???....considering adopting to learn how young people are
>>> cynical and lack anger???? The mind boggles.....
>>>
>>> TO ADOPT A HUMAN BEING for these purposes?
>>>
>>> I have always thought the attacks on him---except for lack of
>>> greatness in his works---were worse and more wrong-headed than what
>>> they attacked in him. He seemed ....decently 'authentic" but if
>>> this is honesty, I prefer lies full of humanity.
>>>
>>> Could this article be accurate?
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>
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