/lit/ - Literature

>>12465924

Oooh.
oooooooh.
Interesting choice. I just finished this a few weeks ago. Eliot's brilliant but this book bored the fuck out of me. It wasn't the plot -- that kept me going -- but the victorian prose, you know? Dickens tried to stretch beyond his era's confines and Eliot was content to play around with what she was handed down prose-wise. Did you get that feeling or am I a crayon eater

>>12465896
Agreed on Vollmann, to a point. Hack's a stretch. Overrated probably suits him better. I've read a bit of his Seven Dreams chronology. It's interesting, but way overhyped. He also doesn't really think women are real people, so I'm not sure he can convincingly write an entire continent.

Like, there's this one interview that went like this:
>Interviewer: How do you respond to accusations of misogyny?
>Vollmann: I love women. I think all women are special and erotic.

...like holy fucking shit, how are you that smart and that unaware of yourself