Barry Miles
Birth date: January 01, 1953
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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.
There's no one quite like Burroughs. My only advice is to ignore the harrumphings about obscenity and read it as a comedy. It is hilarious.
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 ...
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