A review by infinitejoe
The Rainbow Stories by William T. Vollmann

3.0

A book certainly enticing enough to have me try a full length novel by the author. I enjoyed the glimpses into the various degenerates, oddballs, prostitutes, homeless, and psychopaths that one might encounter in San Francisco, or really in any city area, although I'm not sure if other cities have similar groups of introverted, familyless, barely-scraping-by engineers intent on building large contraptions designed to ensure mutual destruction and the destruction of dead animals in staged battles, although hey, you never know.

The stories were well written, and offered various perspectives on and insights into those people that the rest of us probably never much give thought to.