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rising up and rising down

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have any of you guys plowed through this entire thing?

do you read any william vollmann at all? it seems people either love him or hate him

i have no idea, but im interested in reading the abridged version of this, even if it turns out to be 'hi im some guy, heres what i think about everything for 3924839 pages'

all i know about the guy is that he used to look like this:

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whats it about cause i know the roots got the name from this book, im actually reading the tipping point which is another title of one of their albums and its amazingly good. so im guessing they choose the title's for their albums of really good books.
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oh....this thread wasn't at all what i thought it was going to be about



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I am a Vollmaniac, yes

I have read:

The Royal Family
Butterfly Stories
Whores for Gloria
The Rainbow Stories
Europe Central
Riding Towards Everywhere
Poor People
13 Stories and 13 Epitaphs
some parts of the abridged Rising Up and Rising Down

Gave a paper on him in SF recently and managed to even do a mini tour of the Tenderloin yippee
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