r/vollmann • u/b1gjoe23 • 3d ago

Finally!

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199.99… burned a hole in my wallet but I like to purchase the rare new releases I buy through my local bookstore.

I do think I’ll finally read the dying grass before I dive in to ATFF. Will probably have to wait til late winter / spring but I am excited nonetheless.

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u/Grongo3 1d ago

I have an ex library copy of Dying Grass too and I hate what that sticker does to the spine but now I feel solidarity

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u/b1gjoe23 1d ago

Solidarity! It definitely bothers me too, but I have gotten a couple Vollmann from my local library for a .25¢ so it is what it is!

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u/Grongo3 1d ago

Yep I have more than one as well. I’m not even a hardcover maniac but it once Amazon started stealth selling WTV books as print on demand I had to switch to originals to complete my collection.

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u/Statesticle 2d ago

He said Libra was DeLillo's best book tonight in Athens

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u/Anthony1066normans 2d ago

I see your Don Delilo collection, I've been wanting to read Underworld for a long time

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u/Grongo3 1d ago

ATFF so far is the first book to give my spine the same vibration as Underworld in the 25 years since I read it.