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Literary Love
The Royal Family I have a fascination with William's writing. The way he documents the experience of a life of drugs and prostitution is unprecedented. He gives soul to his characters and his writing has a lot of heart. At some points during my read of this novel, I felt icky, like when I read Naked Lunch. The majority of the novel takes place in the Tenderloin of San Francisco. It was great for me b/c I know a lot of the places he was talking about....and for people not familiar with this district, it's a great education. Another note....I'm a slow reader and this 774 page novel took me 9 days to read. Probably a record for me on that large of a novel. Other works by William T. Vollmann: The Rainbow Stories (Tony)
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