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I'm Sorry, I tried, I couldnt.
People liked this? What's so special about Burroughs?

>> No.11941632

>>11941621
Funny bits and fapable bits
For a wife killing junkie pedo who let his son get molested and did nothing about it, he was kind of a degenerate.

>> No.11941675

His writing is extremely cool and quotable. Sure, some of it is edgy and disgusting for the sake of it, but every paragraph of Naked Lunch is an interesting new idea. You can feel his influence on Pynchon

>> No.11941783

unironically love this book. dystopian sci-fi reimagined as literary fiction reimagined as wet dreams in withdrawl.

>> No.11941822

Nobody will just say the obvious: many if the passages are the first and only time boys come into contact with homosexual sex acts. This book has turned many people gay. Beyond that the passages with more imaginative science fiction were a great influence on the genre. He’s also essentially the first shitposter of all time. His whole thing was to destroy every convention in writing ever.

All this being said he was a one trick pony. When I read his work it’s very obvious to me that he’s cemented into the post-modern world and a product of his time. He’s sort of like the noise music of literature and the idea of him is more important than any prose he could write being near and dear to writers hearts. His books are a chore to get through personally but the passages that are more fluid are extremely imaginative. I won’t be reading him again anytime soon but now you can understand when people talk about him and maybe the type of person they are on how they talk about him. Beware of pretentious writers as they flock to him but also many interesting people love him; take for example William Gibson who felt very close to him. This kind of extreme art attracts some loner types that can stake out their claim over his work and realize his writing was made for them. It certainly wasn’t commercial.

>> No.11941857

My problem with Burroughs was that he usually littered every single novel he wrote with the exact same gay sex scene, Repeated dozens of times in each book. It was copypasta about 50 years before 4chan existed.

He also repeated that hanging scene where the kid who's hanged ejaculates on the watching crowd. It appears in every goddamn book he wrote.

The worst part is, Burroughs could actually write and his books have great parts, if you can get through the gay sex.

>> No.11941882

>>11941857
I agree with you, I have to tell myself that the degree of sex was very shocking during the time it was written. Now it doesn’t read all that well which makes it all the more annoying that universally faggots everywhere act like they’re more oppressed that at anytime on planet earth. I used to love faggots and would of said just a few years ago that I was happy they’re more equal but now they’re so fucking loud and neurotic that their histrionics destroy my appreciation of art ( like Burroughs )

I hope there’s another holocaust just for the faggots