Nathan "N.R."’s Comments (group member since Oct 28, 2012)

Nathan "N.R."’s comments from the William T Vollmann Central group.

David wrote: "I'm wondering if he ever gave any interviews about Argall when the book was released? All I ever found was a recording of him at a public reading somewhere, but he doesn't really talk much about th..."

Have you seen his self review ?
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/oct/...

Dax wrote: "Cherry popped with The Dying Grass which remains the coolest reading experience of my life. Followed it up with The Rifles and Fathers and Crows. Plan is to continue with Seven Dreams and then Euro..."

Very nice to hear. and way to start at the top! The Seven Dreams are my favorites of his and pretty much anyone's.

Mala wrote: "If you ask me, the right way would’ve been to approach the relevant authorities via the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi."

Not his way of going about things!

But I think the best way would've been to have contacted his best Dubai reader. A little pissed about him passing you over like that. [good to see you around again!]

Tom wrote: "My December issue of Harper's came in the mail today. It include a long article by Vollmann in which he interviews foreign oil and gas workers in the United Arab Emirates -- an excerpt from Carbon ..."

Thanks for the tip! Here's the page ::
https://harpers.org/archive/2017/12/i...
subscribers only. I'll have to look into getting a hardcopy (if this town has newsstands anymore)

Henry wrote: "Just wondering: My Andre Deutsch edition has 990 pages, in Goodreads it has 1040 pages. Is this an error or have there been 2 prints of different length?"

Mostly likely a gr error.

Doubledf99.99 wrote: "Mine was popped by European Central, which I thought was great, and have been hooked since. Just finished Fathers and Crows, next up is The Ice-Shirt, then The Rifles, back to back to back."

Sounds nice! Got Argall too?

Chris wrote: "It's already available for preorder on Amazon"

BUMP

Ploppy wrote: "Just got this in a google alert https://www.barnebys.com/auctions/lot...

have no idea what it is"

A lovely thing!

Great news!

Coming June 2018.

Alexander wrote: "is The Man Without Qualities any good?"

Yes. But (most of) the second volume sucks.

At least two!

Sosen wrote: "What really struck me was how different it was from his debut novel. I had to see what else he was capable of. "

I had that same first impression, having started with The Ice-Shirt and then nothing was like it again.

A copy available for US$320 ::
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...

About as cheap as it's ever gotten.

Indeed! There's definitely a problem. And the problem only begins when libraries are dumping their copies. That's the main source of inavailability of RURD for today's reader twenty years latter.

Fine if there's an e edition. The debate was whether or not e pub'ing would solve the oop dilemma. In my view it is never the panacea it's trotted out to be. Unless of course by e pub one means pirating.

T.R. wrote: "What's the topic again? ;)"

All things RURD!!!! (including a thing about e=publication I personally wish would go away but that would be asking too much).

End of discussion. Back to the topic of this particular thread.


Respectfully,
Your Moderator

An ebook would require a new edition, a new production. Nothing about copying files. But I'm sure it would still be twenty bucks cheaper than a real book.

And if you ask why? I only have as an answer that that's the only way Bill would have it. And really, who would pay a hundred bucks for an e=photocopy?

A PDF would be unreadable. Just ask the original reviewers asked to read it suchly.

No I mean just like any other book it will be pub'd respectfully or not at all. And it won't be kostenlos.