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6661341 No.6661341 [Reply] [Original]

What do you guys think of this book?

I'm 50 pages in and I think it sucks.

>> No.6661345

>>6661341
Of course it sucks, you're not on heroin. By a junkie, for junkies.

>> No.6661347

>>6661345
I've taken lots of drugs but not that. It sucks.

>> No.6661349

>>6661345
GF says I just do not get the point that it "isn't meant to be understood, its just very deep"

I think its so junkie retard just making gross shit up for fame.

>> No.6661390

>>6661341

I found the movie Naked Lunch to be a nice weaving of stories and images from this book with the life of the author. The book itself uses a lot of the cut-up technique that Burroughs came up with; I didn't bother finishing it.

>> No.6661397

>>6661349
Well, some of the 'gross shit' certainly does have a purpose (e.g. commentary on capital punishment and how being hooked on H dehumanizes the user), but indeed, the rest is interesting only on a raw visceral level -- pure energy and imaginative power. And what's wrong with that?

>> No.6661414

>>6661397
Don't bother explaining it. Some people are simply unable to comprehend anything except a linear narrative.

>> No.6661456

>>6661397
I appreciate the obvious critiques of society such as the colony that is controlled by a drugging leader, that was interesting, but the visuals and "imaginative power" as you say seems childish and mundane. Just a guy trying to be super gross.

>> No.6661469

>>6661456
they are metaphors for homosexuality, not just randomly added.

>> No.6661516

>>6661469
>homosexuality

You mean any aberrant sexuality

>> No.6661579

>>6661341
It sucks OP.

I used to have a rule that I had to finish any book I started. After I finished Naked Lunch I repealed that rule. Life is to short to spend reading shitty books

>>6661349
Your GF sounds like a faggot. You should dump her

Your instincts about this book are right OP it sucks. William S. Burroughs was a drug-addled dipshit who shot his wife and now other drug-addled retards hold him up as some kind of a hero.

>> No.6662203

I think it kinda sucked too. Though I enjoy it more in retrospect than I did while reading.

>> No.6662375

>>6662203
>Though I enjoy it more in retrospect than I did while reading.
This.

This book is hell, I like risked to faint while reading. But somehow it changed something in me.