William T. Vollmann thread

What do you think of his work, Veeky Forums? I'm alternating between The Rainbow Stories and Europe Central right now and I'm just so fascinated by his range of subjects in his writing.

he went to that neat school. i won't ever read anything of his because i don't care enough to put myself through the tens of thousands of pages he's shit out.

there must be something wrong with his cracker if the butter had to be spread that thin.

fugly mofo that cant stop talking about hoes

bump. he's one of the most interesting writers working today.

I don't like his prose. Doesn't seem relevant at the moment. Trashman.

hey

except to see me on the next part of the spiral :~)

He is admittedly one of the most physically hideous writers who has ever lived, but ultimately that's irrelevant apropos his writing, I think

Can anyone give an example of him writing something that doesn't read like the literary version of glass being chewed? Is he at all capable of forming smooth-sounding sentences or is my minimal experience with Vollmann off here?

I want to like him, but his writing makes me feel like I'm operating clunky machinery.

This is from The Ghost of Magnetism out of his Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs

Now for Number Five, and everything is empty like Satoko's bed in the Tenderloin beneath which the dust grows higher on the gigantic heart of barbed wire which one of Painter Ben's girlfriends made for him (the night before Satoko left for Japan he brought it by as a farewell gift, and she said thank you and abandoned it)

I was interested in his work Poor People, but then I heard he paid the interviewees money which creates a COI.