This is fun as hell, I fricking love it. Is Burroughs' other stuff as irresistibly readable?
This is fun as hell, I fucking love it. Is Burroughs' other stuff as irresistibly readable?
This is fun as hell, I fricking love it. Is Burroughs' other stuff as irresistibly readable?
Ywnbaw
I'm a biological male. I'm very happy to hear this from you anon, considering I fricking hate women. I despise them. The closes to trans I am is perhaps some very light contemplation on autogynephilia.
What did you expect? To enjoy Burroughs a moderate amount of depravity is needed about the reader :/
>I fricking hate women
you'll love The Wild Boys: also irresistibly readable
Haven't even heard of this one either, wow! that opening line is brilliant, thanks anon 🙂
everybody in your life is a troony: you just don't know it. anyone who ever posts on here, anyone you've ever talked to, maybe even your own parents is a troony. i'm sorry you had to learn this way.
Dunno, I never get past these 10 minutes. I just listen to this over and over.
>REAL music
Be a good boy and respect the spirit of ropes or the rope demons will get you.
I'll try anon
soft machine is really good. his earlier novels Junky and Queer are fun but not experimental or wacky in the same way. idk about the other stuff
Junkie is written with a readable narrative.
He's the Death Grips of literature, for better or worse.
Most moronic fricking analogy I have ever read on this board. Kudos for that
Huh, haven't actually heard of soft machine (save for the band, and I haven't even heard anything by them either) up till now. Aren't Junky and Queer meant to be read with each other? Pretty sure they're more autobiographical in nature too, which I suppose Naked Lunch is, sort of.
>Most moronic fricking analogy I have ever read on this board. Kudos for that
It's actually quite accurate.
Just finished pic related a couple weeks ago. Very frustrating. He kept setting up these interesting scenarios about anarchist pirate colonies, cholera epidemics, a mysterious virus outbreak in Tibet, a private eye on a strange missing person’s case that somehow interests the CIA… and they all degenerate to gay Pedo butt sex and gay Pedo snuff porn.
I liked the invocation of demons at the beginnings referencing Pazuzu and Chtulu. The whole thing read like a mash up of Weird Tales and an old perverted junky gay’s fap fantasies.
It's just like real life, then
Junkie is very straightforward, perfectly readable, feels very contemporary and factual. Queer was never conventionally finished, but adds a lot to Junkie. It covers his South America adventure - search for new drug and him suffering in a toxic relationship, if you can call it that.
Skip Cut-Up Trilogy. Wild Boys and Exterminator are solid but lesser works. They have their moments though.
Red Nights trilogy is his best work after NL. Second part is particularly compelling - hilarious metaphysical western with some scenes that outdo Jodorowsky.
Read his letters if you want. Incredible man.
Nice to see another Burroughs fan 🙂
Fav anecdote is probably
>On September 6, 1951, Burroughs shot Vollmer in the head, allegedly while trying to shoot a glass he had asked her to balance on her head during a drunken William Tell act. Vollmer died several hours later at the age of 28 Burroughs said he had 8–10 drinks and could not remember much of that night, while witnesses claimed they had two small glasses.
Most of IQfy seems to crap all over anything/anyone even remotely associated with the Beat movement, save for maybe Kerouac :/
>Most of IQfy seems to crap all over anything/anyone even remotely associated with the Beat movement, save for maybe Kerouac :/
IQfy dislikes all the beats, except for Burroughs.