When I first started reading this, it was really shocking.Then it was so hilarious I actually started crying with laughter.After that it just got kind of dull. Why?Firstly, there are only so many bad words in the English language- Burroughs uses pretty much all the ones I know of repeatedly, and the...
Introduction--Naked LunchOriginal Introductions and Additions by the AuthorDeposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness (1960)Post Script ... Wouldn't You? (1960)Afterthoughts on a Deposition (1991)Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous DrugsBurroughs Texts Annexed by the EditorsEditors' Note by Ba...
Introduction--Naked LunchOriginal Introductions and Additions by the AuthorDeposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness (1960)Post Script ... Wouldn't You? (1960)Afterthoughts on a Deposition (1991)Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous DrugsBurroughs Texts Annexed by the EditorsEditors' Note by Ba...
Meh. Recognizing the historical significance of a work doesn't necessarily make it good or worth reading all the way through. There's no arguing that Naked Lunch has incredible significance in the literary sphere and the larger world of free speech, published with a boom and an obscenity trial, ex...
I found this book sickening and incomprehensible. I tried to stick through it, I really did. I suffered through three-quarters of this heroine-induced mind babble and called it quits. No plot, not even comprehensible sentence structure. I am typically one for the beat authors and even for experi...
Still reading this one. But without so much hope left of being able to make it over page 10.I have no doubt that this way of writing was really modern and provocative back in 1959. The fact is that fifty-two years later I am not able to stand what Mr Burroughs is trying to tell (or not to tell) me.A...
WARNING: nasty language ahead, including the use of some of my favorite phrases from the novel; these include such choice nuggets as mugwump jism and to turn a massacre into a sex orgy and a bubbly thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell and the subject will come at his whistle, shit on the fl...
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