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Randy’s 2025 Year in Books
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There’s no way to not be fascinated by the range and depth of Vollman’s investigations, if not always out of affinity for his topic, then always out of curiosity for what he discovers. In Vollman’s own words, the 700+ pages of this abridged version ( ...more |
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| While it's a fact that Vollman writes some impressively thick books, the page count of this tome is deceptive in that actual text is a reasonable 294 pages. The remainder is an appendix of Sources, and 128 of his own photographs, bulking up the volum ...more | |
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"“Why are some people rich and other people poor?” -- Mr. Vollmann
"Daddy, how does a person get to be like that man?" -- Ms. Dice The two questions are quite close. Why is it that....? How does it come about that....? Yet the positions of the questione" Read more of this review » |
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"Every Homeless Man a Hipster('s Dream)
...in which, typically, the author travels the world in search of vindication of his desk-bound preconceptions. Come On, Feel the Mitsein Nothing needs to be done about poor people (or the underpaid and unpaid), be" Read more of this review » |
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"Why are some people rich and other people poor?
Do you consider yourself poor? Why are you poor? Do the rich have any obligation to the poor? These are a few of the questions Vollmann asked of an array of people he encountered or sought out around the w" Read more of this review » |
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Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness: Volume Two
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Great to see another reader of Vollman's works, because by coincidence I am reading his Poor People at the moment.
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“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
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“Our reading was subversive, and we knew it...
I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling...
What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.”
― An American Childhood: A Poignant Memoir About Parents and Passion in 1950s Pittsburgh
I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling...
What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.”
― An American Childhood: A Poignant Memoir About Parents and Passion in 1950s Pittsburgh
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
