This was an incredibly exhausting and somewhat pointless read. The intro, as well as the annex, were okay-ish and had at least an informative value to them (to a certain degree...), but everything in between was horrid and reeeally far from being understandable or enjoyable at all. So... thanks, but...
It is a fascinating experimental novel. It is a kind of drug fueled satire. It is part of a modernist movement of nightmare that has as its representatives Bacon in Art and Lou Reed in music. Interestingly Reed credits Burroughs as a huge influence. It is a hallucinogenic, discordant sort of p...
I've been reading this book the past few weeks during exams,just picking it up and flicking through a few pages every day. I think this is how Burroughs wanted it to be read. Any more and I find things get confused very fast with Naked Lunch. But it was a very enjoyable book to read.
It's a major trip written by a person on a major trip. What do you think it is like? On a technical level, while it's not a part of The Nova Trilogy, it's still made via cut-up technique. It is fascinating, the way parts fit together nevertheless. Still, there are obvious throwbacks to the beginni...
Naked Lunch is one of the true seminal American novels, at least in my opinion. The "Restored Text" version adds some bits and pieces that have been excised and censored over the years, and does add a little to the experience of reading this classic. The book is always hard to quantify or just even ...
”The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED lunch--a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of the fork.” The book title was suggested by Jack Kerouac.If not for the intervention of William S. Burroughs friends, Naked Lunch would have never seen the light of day. Peter Orlovsky, ...
Read this more than 10 years ago.I read the version which included author's "foreword" concerning all the things he had learned from doing drugs. It's more of an article really. I think it should be a mandatory reading for those in the medical profession.But I really think that everyone should read ...
After trying to read this book and On The Road, I think it's safe for me to say that the Beat era of literature is tedious, self-indulgent nonsense masquerading as genius. This incoherent, meaningless drivel would probably only appeal to the most pretentious of people, who feign understanding and e...
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