Out of the way, plebs. Patrician coming through.
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Out of the way, plebs. Patrician coming through.
Doesn anyone think Vollmann would have better meme status here if he had a definitive meme book? Every one of his books is a doorstopper and they all seem to be pretty equally acclaimed by critics, I think. If one of them stood out it would fit nicely in the new meme trilogy.
>>8109471
Not really: The Rifles stands far above most of his work. I think it's just the sheer volume of writing he's done that keeps him from achieving popularity here.
>>8109471
Europe Central should probably be his meme book. It isn't part of the Seven Dreams but is still a behemoth. He's got a great persona for a meme author: fucked prostitutes in the shittiest part of San Francisco, traveled over the world to do war correspondence and hated it, kind of killed his little sister, cross dresses, and was a unabomber suspect. Oh and he loves guns and is one of the ugliest people I've ever seen.
>>8109501
While I disagree that The Rifles is his best work, I think we can both agree that the sheer amount of research put into his work is absolutely staggering.
I liked You Bright and Risen Angels.
>>8109502
Jealous, anon?
>>8109584
Jealous of what
>>8109627
Xer sublime beauty, of course.
>>8109647
It's her. Just because Willy cross dresses doesn't mean he's an SJW. Anyway, he knows he makes an ugly old woman.
I'm reading The Ice Shirt now, about halfway through. It's weird but I really like how he tells the story like an old Norse saga. The story about the two skraeling children that live with some Norse Greenlanders and then kill themselves when said Greenlanders left was sad. The Inuit creation myth is absolutely bonkers. Leif is a pile of garbage and Eirik suffered a cruel fate with how his two other sons died.
pretty patrician OP
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/fashion/Author-William-T-Vollmann-Explores-His-Cross-Dressing.html?_r=0
kek
Does he write fiction? Is it historical? What's up with the cross dressing?
>>8110762
he's fucking bizarre but a phenomenal writer. if anything this helps his meme potential
>>8110829
He writes historical fiction and contemporary fiction. Most of his contemporary fiction involves prostitutes, drunks, and drug addicts. He cross dresses to experiment with feminity and write female characters. He's also created an art book called The Book of Dolores. He isn't trans and actually made some trans people quite salty.
He's also written a lot of nonfiction such as Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial.
His works are exhaustively researched, be it through studying Inuit creation myth and traveling to the arctic circle or smoking crack and fucking whores.
Vollmann too patrician for you fags huh?
He's garbage and his fans can't say anything good about him.
>>8111631
Pfft. Beat it, kid.
>>8109514
Definitely. He's definitely one of the most industrious authors still alive.
>>8109502
It's funny: as a kid, Vollmann was probably one of those weirdos that everyone ridiculed, the kind that sat alone in the lunchroom. Unlike all the other weirdos across the country, though, he actually made something of himself.
>>8113590
Two more books in the Seven Dreams series right? I've only just started, I'm not sure if I should go chronologically (as in the order he wrote them in) or the order of the dreams.
>>8109455
DFW liked him so he's a meme by association. Game, set, match, fucko.
>>8114533
who /cringe/ here
