/lit/ - Literature

>>19400716
it's shit

>>19400716
elaborate

>>19400716
Druggie diary desu. What's there to get?

>>19400716

Try reading it ironically

>>19400716
The idea linking every vignette is control. Think of the quote that goes something like "absolute control only leads to more control" or something like that.
The book is an incredible satire and hallucinatory analysis of the way that control of any kind perverts the dominant and the submissive alike.
It's just a shame that much of it reads like ass piss.

>>19400716
Read Nova Express or The Ticket that Exploded instead

>>19400716
no one does

>>19400716
It's just burroughs writing about how scared he is the physicians being paid to sedate his drug-addled, schizophrenic ass.

>>19400834
The only half-decent comment in this thread.
>>19400878
The commentaries on business, capital punishment and authoritarian government adequately disprove this anon.

>>19400716
Drug induced word salad. 1/10

>>19400716
best read taking everything literally, without second meaning. just enjoy it, it’s fun

>>19400716
Gay porn.

gaysex

it's cool at first but gets tedious by the end. the movie is underrated.

>>19400716
You won't understand how good it is until you compare it to his earlier work, Junky. I didn't get it at first either.

I can think of two things wrong with that title

>>19400716
It's a nice pre-60's, pre-hippies view into how junkies and homosexuals lived back in a time and age where being either or both was a death sentence instead of being corporate sponsored for the sake of government control. It's a look into a more brutal time where they just swiped these undesirables under the carpet of the abstract label of the "underworld" and left them there to fuck and drug themselves to death, with some measure of political satire that tries to make some points, and some sci-fi just because it's fun.

Trying to read it as insightful commentary into the period or whatever misses so much of what’s good about it that I can only suppose people do it because they’ve been conditioned by reductive analyses.

It’s Burroughs’ independent vision of hell fasioned out of the worst of the worst of this world, torturing the reader with sometimes the same methods it describes, and with a pov so shifty that it gains a disembodied/mystical quality. Also it’s visibly funny, scary and creative, what don’t you get?

This book is what happens when Christianity declines. Literal Hell on earth.

>>19400716

Then your visa request to Interzone is declined

>>19400827
This sounds entertaining to me unironically. Is it too late for me?