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What. The. Fuck. Did. I. Just. Read.

>> No.5212583

You read drugs.

>> No.5212595

Well if the picture is any indicator you read Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs

>> No.5212597

http://vocaroo.com/i/s00EK8sTKAn2

>> No.5212600

bunch of random but occasionally brilliant bullshit by very disturbed person

>> No.5212734

>>5212573
Something not as good as Cities of the Red Night.

>> No.5212739

Kid, it was tasty.

>> No.5212750

>>5212600
Burroughs was a fucking genius. Not disturbed.

>> No.5212751

>>5212739
Can't deny all that anal penetration.

>> No.5213158

>>5212573
was just about to make a thread on the same book.

Am I a pleb because I don't get this?

I mean I appreaciate the moments of vast lucidity but then others are just junk - maybe that's the point

btw which order are the chapters recommended to be read in?

>> No.5213168

>>5213158
Now you know how I felt when I read Ulysses.

The fuck was that script-format chapter?

>> No.5213181

>>5213168

i read ulysses and actually thought it was better - I mean I didn't feel like i desperately needed to re-read it to glean anything extra from it. Not to say that I understood it completely, far from it, but I was satisfied with what I had.

The opposite than what I got from naked lunch. It is short book so I have read twice already, and as of yet understand very little. The changing formats aren't that bothersome but I still don't see their value in a great way. The main thing is the order. I can't tell if it is chronological or not and what is reality and what is not. An example of the peculiar sort of blur is when we meet Docotr Benway for the first time and all the patients escape - I assume that didn't really happen and was some hallucination of the narrator as he was undergoing some sort of detox treatment or something

i suppose disorientation is the aim

>> No.5213189

>>5212750
Burroughs was thoroughly disturbed. Doesn't discredit his genius. Nigga what you on?

>> No.5213208

Was this intended to cause arousal?
Because it sure roused me noimsayin

>> No.5213214

>>5213208
parts of it, yes

>> No.5213800

>>5213181
>can't into disorder
>tfw disorder is more highly ordered order than order itself
>tfw you don't get it bc u can't get it

:shake my head:

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5214453

Am I the only one who thought this book became dull after the first 150 or so pages? Although I admire Burroughs on a personal level, this book became
>LOL DRUGS AND GAY SHIT BUTTSEX LOLOLOL
after a while.

>> No.5215542

>>5213800
wait, was that a summary of what I said, or what I should have said

>> No.5215591

I fucking hated this book, but I loved hating it.

>> No.5215600

I don't know why but I thought The Rube was supposed to Kerouac

was I right

>> No.5215610

>>5213168
> The fuck was that script-format chapter?
Circe? One of the easiest chapters of Ulysses, literally a drama in which the characters dreams (which are a bit Freudian to say) are projected to the action.

>> No.5215662

>>5212750
>killing your wife
>not disturbing

>> No.5215689

>>5215662
disturbes*

>> No.5215696

>>5215689
disturbed**

>> No.5215812

Is the book easier to understand than the movie?

>> No.5215835

>>5215542
:smh:

>> No.5215969

>>5215835
Nice

>> No.5216163

>>5214453
The same thing happens with The Wild Boys. It starts out with a ton of interesting characters and images but devolves into "rectal mucous" and "vegetable lust".

Had to shelve it.

>> No.5216240

>>5213208
almost fucking cummed myself from reading this

>> No.5216249

>>5214453
wtf it's only 150 pages long anyway

>> No.5216377

>>5216249
300

>> No.5216389

>>5216377
y u counting 50 pages of editor's notes?

Naked Lunch restored text is like 230 pages. I can verify, i's sitting on my lap.

>> No.5216395

>>5216389
I read the Eye Sight Impaired edition.

>> No.5216451

>>5213158
>Am I a pleb because I don't get this?
All there really is to "get" is that the novel is supposed to be incoherent, funny, slightly disturbing, and artsy. Just read it like you would watch Tim and Eric.

>> No.5216460

>>5216389
>y u

>> No.5216488

>>5212750
>genius
>wrote a bunch of misinformation about opiates and various other drugs

read junky. it's FULL of bullshit that he pulled out of his ass and presents as either factual, or based in factual personal experience

>> No.5216539

>>5216488
junky is a nice read if you can get beyond that though

>> No.5218170

>>5212573
You've read a raport from the Interzone son.
Letter from the dark side. You've read something gross and great at the same time. Let it settle, after a while you might actually learn to enjoy it, or even love, just like me.