Naked Lunch

First US paperback edition, 1st printing First Evergreen Black Cat Edition 1966. New Download Kindle ePUB Naked Lunch By William S. Burroughs – kino-fada.fr The title means exactly what the words say NAKED lunch a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of the fork The book title was suggested by Jack Kerouac If not for the intervention of William S Burroughs friends, Naked Lunch would have never seen the light of day Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac decided to visit Burroughs in Tangiers and see if they could salvage any of the fragmented writing that had been dripping from the mind of Burroughs while he was nurs The title means exactly...From the 20 pages I ve read so far, it seems like starting a heroin habit is a bad idea.2 55 5, , , , , , , ,hardcore , 2 55 5, , , , , , , ,hardcore ,, ,, ,, , , ,,50 , , , , , , ,WARNING nasty language ahead, including the use of some of my favorite phrases from the novel these include such choice nuggets as mugwump jism and to turn a massacre into a sex orgy and a bubbly thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell and the subject will come at his whistle, shit on the floor if he but say Open Sesame anyway, I ll be honest, mugwump jism, i...So, basically, the meaningless drivel of the very first circuit boi Seriously Maybe I would have liked it better if I weren t already sick to death of all the hallucinatory narratives this book spawned This is a structure that needed to be created only once to get the bastard over with and properly buried.Drug narratives are always only autobiographies obsessed with the author s secret obscene wishes and inevitably Neanderthal politics They are the literary equivalent of a frotteur on the So, basically, the meaningless drivel of the very first circuit boi Seriously Maybe I would have liked it better if I weren t already sick to death of all the hallucinatory narratives this book spawned This is a structure that needed to be created only once to get the bastard over with and properly buried.Drug narratives are always only autobiographies obsessed with the author s secret obscene wishes and inev...This book is beautiful in a sick grotesque wild hilarious creative mind bending outlandish drug filled dirty brave kind of way If I could use one word to describe it, it would be bizarre although hilarious and important could work, too In Naked Lunch you are taken into the mind of William S Burroughs a twisted, drug addicted man, who also happens to be genius When considering its content, it s no wonder Naked Lunch was banned and railed against when it was first released it s also This book is beautiful in a sick grotesque wild hilarious creative mind bending outlandish drug filled dirty brave kind of way If I could use one word to describe it, it would be bizarre although hilarious and important could work, too In Naked Lunch you are taken into the mind of William S Burroughs a twisted, drug addicted man, who also happens to be genius When considering its content, it s no wonder Naked Lunch was banned and railed against when it was first released it s also no surprise that it was as popular as it was, given its creative brilliance I can t recommend Naked Luncht to anyone it s as graphic as the imagination allows In fact, I would say that it s the sickest book I ve ever read, but I just happened to read Bataille s Story of ...The flaw of the 5 star rating system is in trying figure out whether you should award stars based on how much you liked a book, or based on how good you think a book is These two criteria are often distinct from each other, and Naked Lunch, at least for me, is a perfect example of this I think that Naked Lunch is a brilliant book, an that Burroughs is one of our century s great literary geniuses So, that makes it a five star book But did I enjoy reading it Sometimes very much, sometimes n The flaw of the 5 star rating system is in trying figure out whether you should award stars based on how much you liked a book, or based on how good you think a book is These two criteria are often distinct from each other, and Naked Lunch, at least for me, is a perfect ...Oh boy One part of me wants to throw this novel away because some parts are written like a 15 year old s first foray into erotic fanfiction while another part of me wants to hail this as a masterpiece of filth that would make John Waters sick So I m going to settle in the middle There are some parts of this novel that made me go what the actual fuck but I like that I like it when literally every boundary is pushed as far as it can go The prose is nonsensical and disorientating which is pr Oh boy One part of me wants to throw this novel away because some parts are written like a 15 year old s first f...I made it just a little bit past the passage mentioning Steely Dan the dildo actually, it s three generations of dildos all thriving under the Steely Dan name And then, at the request of my old man who was sick of hearing me complain and puzzle over this book, I put it down for good I don t like to leave books unfinished, but a girl can only swallow so many reiterations of the same tired orgiastic death by hanging scenario before she puts her foot down and says NO MORE I almost liked the bo I made it just a little bit past the passage mentioning Steely Dan the dildo actually, it s three generations of dildos all thriving under the Steely Dan name And then, at the request of my old man who was sick of hearing me complain and puzzle over this book, I put it down for good I don t like to leave books unfinished, but a girl can only swallow so many reiterations of the same tired orgiastic death by hanging scenario before she puts her foot down and says NO MORE I almost liked the book for this over the top ghastliness alone Complex, acrobatic sex scenes abound, and there s something charming about the way it just gets nastier and nastier until the outlandishness of the unending orgies becomes laughable But the redundancy of the themes and prose eventually became cloying For example, Burroughs used the phrase cancelled eyes conspicuously often While it s an apt enough way to describe the expression of someone floating through a dru...A merry go round of grotesqueries infinite pain The life of the junky means nothing and so the experience is circular a self or is it punishment, an act of extreme nihilism this is a cry from the very depths of hell, and the last time I checked the most successful account of it was by a man named Dante Alighieri.Burroughs out writes those terribly true duds of literary fame, mainly Henry Miller, Kerouac, et al This is incendiary, fantastic, simply put, a bonafide WORK OF ART In my A merry go round of grotesqueries infinite pain The life of the junky means nothing and so the experience is circular a self or is it punishment, an act of extreme nihilism this is a cry from the very depths of hell, and the last time...

• English
• 03 September 2018
William S. Burroughs
• Paperback
• 289 pages
• 0802140181
• William S. Burroughs
• Naked Lunch