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by William S. Burroughs
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Blogged Out Ma Nut
Blogged Out Ma Nut rated it 12 years ago
If [a:E.L. James|4725841|E.L. James|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1308409727p2/4725841.jpg] were a gay heroin addict... okay you get the point.But there are some startling similarities. An affinity for a limited vocabulary, eroticising of stones (sand- for James, lime- for Burroughs)...Neither of t...
La Mala *the mean girl*
La Mala *the mean girl* rated it 13 years ago
Lo leì a los catorce y no entendì un carajo . Tendrè que leerlo nuevamente .
NinthWanderer
NinthWanderer rated it 16 years ago
Three stars because I admired what Burroughs was trying to do with his cut-up technique, but ultimately I found the book unreadable. I think the cut-up technique could work on a story level, but on a sentence level it renders nonsense. However, reading the book made me search out more information ab...
Bookish Quotes
Bookish Quotes rated it 56 years ago
I know it is experimental. It reminds me of those alchemists' experiments when they tried to produce gold from excrements. And failed. Ultimately they were just dabbling in shit.This book reads as if Burroughs swallowed words like rectal mucous, compost heap, jissom, masturbate, cock, dropped his pa...
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