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Started reading this last week.
I think it's utterly brilliant and have began to annotate it just for kicks.
What do you think, /lit/?

>> No.820295

Annotate it?
Why?

>> No.820300

>>820295
because its edgy and hip. like the books he reads. thats why.
also so he could have something to brag on /lit/ about

>> No.820302

>>820295
Because I really like his writing style, and I often think of things I like to jot down whilst i'm reading it.
It was only a cheap copy from a charity shop, so I don't feel like i'm wasting anything.

>> No.820307

>>820300
I'm very far from edgy and hip. More awkward.
and bragging anonymously doesn't really work

>> No.820321

>>820302
i write in my easton press books, i dont give a fuck.

>> No.820327

Funny how people can't do anything anymore without being called a hipster and such.

>> No.820334

I'm kind of unsure how to feel about this book, simply because I don't quite know my views on books that aren't quite books, but are just there to evoke a certain type of thought-process.

>> No.820409

>>820334
Hm, I can agree with that. I think that's one of the reasons why I like it so much, because it's far from a nice and comfortable read, and actually really makes me think.

>> No.820435

>>820327
I think hipster should wordfilter to something.

Mabye water-goblin, and pretentious could be Delicious.

"I cant stand those delicious water-goblins and their vintiage t-shirts"

>> No.820446

Protip: hipsters don't exist
It's a good book OP.
If you want to, why not annotate it?
I always add notes to books when something strikes me about the text.

>> No.820522

>>820446
Not sure of /lit/'s general opinion, but I have a lot of friends who think that writing in books is desecration. I, personally, underline, depending on the book, especially if it's falling apart, anyway. I seriously know a guy that thinks that dog-earing the pages of a book is disrespect to the author, though.

>> No.820531

>The book was banned in Boston in 1962 due to obscenity (notably child murder and acts of pedophilia)

Sounds more like /b/ material, not /lit/

>> No.820537

What's it about

>> No.820577

>>820531
Have you never read this? It was extremely controversial, but ultimately the Supreme Court decided that this book was of literary merit. I think that's good enough for /lit/

>> No.820729

>>820531
It's most certainly /lit/ material.
How about you read it before you condemn it to /b/?

>> No.822722

>>820531
where was the child murder in Naked Lunch? i don't remember that.

>> No.822754

>>822722
did you even read it? slunk salesmen

>> No.822772

>>822754
several hundred times, as well as "Interzone", "My Education", "Cities of the Red Night", "The Western Lands", "Ghost of Chance" and the ReSearch book about Burroughs, Gysin and Throbbing Gristle. i still don't remember children being murdered in Naked Lunch.

>> No.822816

>>822722

You mean you don't recall the part where the Mugwump rapes a youth and then breaks his neck on a noose?

>> No.823495
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823495

Brion Gysin was better

>> No.823496

>>822816
oh, a "youth". i thought when you said "child" you meant, like, a four-year-old. all of Burroughs' "youths" were at least fifteen.

>> No.823501

>>823495
if Bryon Gysin was better, then how come you have to look him up on wikipedia before you can name either of his novels?

>> No.823517

>>823501
8/10 I started to rage

>> No.823524

>>823496
I don't know about that I seem to remember some underage mexican prostitutes or maybe I was projecting..

>> No.823563

I like Naked Lunch quite a tad. I'd like to read more Burroughs but am unsure what next to delve into.

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823651

>>820531

>> No.823701

I disliked this book, but it seems like annotating it could be fun.

>> No.823770

>>823563
Junky. Always Junky

>> No.823775

>>823563
The Ticket that Exploded

I fappd

>> No.823788

>>823563
Soft Machine! Spanglish, constant jizzing, chapters that use less than 7 different words, no discernible plot development. All while waxing the human body.

>> No.824572

The movie is waaaaaaayyy better

>> No.825030

>>824572
Troll troll cancer troll
The movie is how the book got written
cannot even compare the two troll