/lit/ - Literature

Literally everything about that pic is wrong. Especially the last comparison. A Game of Thrones is great, and that 'ancient evil bullshit' is last thing you'll encounter in those books.

bad troll, 2/10

Run away, op.

Run away and never return.

>>2531496
He is technically considered part of the Beat era, and yes, being socially linked to the other Beats does include him. That's like saying Jasper Johns wasn't a pop artist just because he knew Andy Warhol casually and only hung at his studio a few times.
Also,
"Perhaps most stunning about Naked Lunch isn’t that Burroughs made a stunning contribution to American letters, but that he had written his novel under the influence of heroin. Much of the book, in fact, deals with addiction, and involves scenes of characters doing drugs.

According to legend, Burroughs did not even remember writing large portions of the novel. When Ginsburg and fellow beat writer Jack Kerouac visited Burroughs in Tangier, they found the novel strewn about the apartment carelessly. Burroughs seemed more interested in feeding his heroin addiction than working the material into a proper novel."

I prefer short stories to novels.

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