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The Dying Grass

The Dying Grass by William Vollmann

August 5, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I have no real idea what to say about a book like this. It’s an experience, that’s for sure. If you’ve read any of the other Seven Dreams books by William Vollmann you can probably guess some of the things that go in this one. Usually there’s a storyteller figure, here called William the Blind, who acts as a kind of guide through the various stories. Here that means someone who can be in the future of the narrative, looking at the American Northwest and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: William Vollmann

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:442 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: William Vollmann ·
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Tossing in a bunch at once.

The Ice Shirt by William Vollmann

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

The Rip Off by Jim Thompson

On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

Why are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer

A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons

June 23, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Ice Shirt – 3/5 Stars I might be Viking-ed out. Between this novel, playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (which is a ton of game), and rewatching the Marvel movies (and with Loki starting up right now) this book was poorly chosen for me to read right now. But it’s a book I’ve been planning to read for 20 years and have failed to a few times, so maybe this is just my reaction to the book. The book is a kind of mixed media novel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Annette Gordon-Reed, dan simmons, Jim Thompson, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, William Vollmann

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:264 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Annette Gordon-Reed, dan simmons, Jim Thompson, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, William Vollmann ·
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