How the fuck is it possible for one guy to write so much? I've

Someone here once called him DFW-lite and that bothered me so much as I was attempting to read Europe Central that I had to put it down and haven't gone back to it since

>>9642882
I find DFW unreadable and think Vollmann is some kind of god

>>9642866
well for one he got the fuck out of the house at a super early age. grabbed a pen, camera and a notebook and got right into life. he's probably lived more than all of us combined. pretty sure he almost died once or twice too.

>>9642866
Probably had a lot of spare time what with all the sex he most certainly was not having.

>>9643756
kek. Deep springs will do that to ya

>>9642995
yea but his prose is complete shit

>>9643756
He wrote a book about how much unprotected sex he's had with prostitutes

>>9644033
Smart move, the ones that don't ask for protection are the cheaper ones.

>>9644003
Expand on this, please. Not only do I think you've never read a single novel he wrote (every book has a vastly different style, so which one? all of them?), but I also doubt you read any books at all.

>>9644003
no it's not lmao

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>>9644040
>>9644060
Nice prose

>>9644140
I somehow just know you're one of those psueds who reads Tolstoy in translation and then claim he has beautiful prose.

>>9644140
What is this, a picture for people with broken necks?

>>9644160
if you look in the middle you can see the two niggers

>>9644140
neat glad to see you have only read a bit of one short story from one of his books lmao

>>9644152
Nope. I just dislike the way Vollmann writes, that's all. I admire his stamina, his mission, his relentless dedication to exposing the injustices of the world, but I think the way he does it is, quite frankly, horrible. It's frequently puerile and overdone and reads like a teenager trying to see how far his sentence can go without wondering what it'd be like to actually read that sentence. Completely ugly. Yuck

>>9644166
You're right
>>9644175
Some essay someone posted in a DFW thread last week quotes one of his essays and the author totally makes Vollmann look like a faggot.

Haven't read anything by him yet. I have a copy of The Rainbow Stories. Is it a good place to start? How does the prose compare to his more epic/bigger novels?


>>9642882
Kek. I remember that thread.

>>9644175
you haven't convinced anyone of your case...

you seem really bitter inside.

>>9644526
What? I don't care if people disagree, like I said Vollmann is a really respectable writer. I'm bitter because I dislike his prose?
>everyone must agree and get along
Fuck off