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Fiction

hermetic

(8,622 posts) Fri Jul 31, 2015, 04:25 PM Jul 2015

"The reading experience of a lifetime"

So says the Washington Post about William Vollmann’s The Dying Grass.

"The story is a brilliant and masterful retelling of the Nez Perce War of 1877 that is worth every page."

At over 1,300 pages I doubt I'll be getting around to that one anytime soon. But I would like to hear if anyone does read it and what they think. Sounds like a good one for long, cold winter nights.

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"The reading experience of a lifetime" (Original Post) hermetic Jul 2015 OP

Thanks for calling our attention to this, hermetic. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #1

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1. Thanks for calling our attention to this, hermetic.

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Sun Aug 2, 2015, 01:00 PM

Aug 2015

The only thing I have read on the Nez Perce War was the account in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

Sounds like a fascinating read.

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