Vollmann (was: Re: PoMo Studies Hoax (gets taken seriously))

[Becky Lindroos]

Ahhh…. but The Dying Grass available in both Kindle and Audible formats.  My favorite reading these day is to listen to an Audible version with the Kindle going along with it for rereading sections or searches or whatever - highlighting.   It’s a bit more costly but it takes more hours to get through a book.  I often get about 1/3 through an Audible version and “need!” the Kindle to go with it,  so I download that and start over.  lol -  

I happened to own a hard cover 1st edition of The Ice Shirt (bought second hand from a library cleaning-out) and also needed to switch to non-digital for evening reads so my old eyes can get to sleep.  The Ice Shirt was my pick about a week ago and it will last me at least several months.  lol -   I guess I’m dreaming ahead.  


Becky
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com

> On Oct 10, 2018, at 12:08 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes, you can read it as standalone, Becky. 
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> One word of caution: it's extremely long even for Vollmann. took me at least three months to get through, not to mention lugging that doorstop onto the train commuting to work
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> rich
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:20 PM Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Do you need the intervening books of the series to make sense of The Dying Grass?   If not,  if it can be a standalone,  I’ll pick it up next!  
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> Becky
> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
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> > On Oct 10, 2018, at 11:03 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I would recommend the Dying Grass, the last Seven Dream installment to be published. there's hardly any of the William the Blind distractions where WV inserts himself into the narrative in Fathers & Crows, Argall (which I couldnt finish), etc.. also its an unsparing look at white racism (subtle or not) and brutality balanced with a more realistic portrayal of the Nez Perce (warts and all) as human beings not solely seen as martyrs or victims. 
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> > rich
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> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:55 PM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> > I'm reading "Poor People" (in the translation - "Arme Leute" - of Robin Detje, Berlin 2018: edition suhrkamp) & enjoying it a lot. Vollmann is, in my humble opinion, best when he's working based on primary experiences of his own. Unlike Pynchon, he's not so good with secondary sources, at least I was not convinced by "Europe Central" at all. But where he goes into the field - like in "The Rainbow Stories", "The Royal Family" or, case in question, "Poor People" - he's developing the particular sensitivity Hubert Fichte, a German writer with a similar approach, called the "ethnopoetic" style. It's better than social science, --- it's true in a human respectively existential sense.
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> > > The genius of Poor People is how Vollmann demonstrates the arbitrariness of the line we draw between “self” and “other.” <
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> > http://quarterlyconversation.com/poor-people-by-william-t-vollmann-review
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> > https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2017/hubert_fichte/hubert_fichte_start.php
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> > Am 08.10.2018 um 17:43 schrieb Becky Lindroos:
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> > finally reading Wm Vollmann’s “The Ice Shirt”   -  sigh - loving it -
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