16 Comments

1. March 24th, 2010 / 11:25 pm Jhon Baker—

   I hve read the first half of this book over ten times and still cannot seem to have the energy to finish it. May be that I am gripped by addiction or that I read it from another place called nightmare. I don’t know but now I am going to begin my eleventh attempt. I would thank you but no.

2. March 24th, 2010 / 7:25 pm Jhon Baker—

   I hve read the first half of this book over ten times and still cannot seem to have the energy to finish it. May be that I am gripped by addiction or that I read it from another place called nightmare. I don’t know but now I am going to begin my eleventh attempt. I would thank you but no.

3. March 24th, 2010 / 11:58 pm Nathan (Nate) Tyree—

   You must. This is a life changing book. Burroughs madness is your madness. He rapes the language, he fucks the style. He uploads the black meat into your soul

4. March 24th, 2010 / 7:58 pm Nathan (Nate) Tyree—

   You must. This is a life changing book. Burroughs madness is your madness. He rapes the language, he fucks the style. He uploads the black meat into your soul

5. March 25th, 2010 / 12:08 am Hank—

   How’s it compare with “The Ticket That Exploded”? I tried reading that one once because it was the only Burroughs my university library had and I couldn’t get through it.

6. March 24th, 2010 / 8:08 pm Hank—

   How’s it compare with “The Ticket That Exploded”? I tried reading that one once because it was the only Burroughs my university library had and I couldn’t get through it.

7. March 25th, 2010 / 6:58 am Kyle Minor—

   Are there any other Burroughs books worth the reader’s time? Naked Lunch is the only one I’ve read.

8. March 25th, 2010 / 2:58 am Kyle Minor—

   Are there any other Burroughs books worth the reader’s time? Naked Lunch is the only one I’ve read.

9. March 25th, 2010 / 8:54 am I. Fontana—

   The Soft Machine is by far my favorite. It has everything you want out of him at his best but is structured enough to dodge longeuers.

   I have a framed photo of him above my toilet so I see it several times a day. It’s the almost young Burroughs, in Mexico City around the time he shot Joan in the head. He’s in a sense my hero in that he wrote all through the 1950s material wild enough it was ridiculous to imagine publishing it in America then. Yet he kept writing. I think of this model sometimes… the ideal of just writing because you love doing it, and you write what you want to read. (The author is the first reader, Maurice Blanchot said.)

10. March 25th, 2010 / 4:54 am I. Fontana—

    The Soft Machine is by far my favorite. It has everything you want out of him at his best but is structured enough to dodge longeuers.

    I have a framed photo of him above my toilet so I see it several times a day. It’s the almost young Burroughs, in Mexico City around the time he shot Joan in the head. He’s in a sense my hero in that he wrote all through the 1950s material wild enough it was ridiculous to imagine publishing it in America then. Yet he kept writing. I think of this model sometimes… the ideal of just writing because you love doing it, and you write what you want to read. (The author is the first reader, Maurice Blanchot said.)

11. March 25th, 2010 / 5:36 pm Nathan Tyree—

    Much better (although I do like “ticket”).

12. March 25th, 2010 / 5:36 pm Nathan Tyree—

    The Wild Boys, Junky, Soft Machine and several others

13. March 25th, 2010 / 1:36 pm Nathan Tyree—

    Much better (although I do like “ticket”).

14. March 25th, 2010 / 1:36 pm Nathan Tyree—

    The Wild Boys, Junky, Soft Machine and several others

15. March 25th, 2010 / 9:35 pm Blake Butler—

    Agreed on Wild Boys. that’s my favorite.

16. March 25th, 2010 / 5:35 pm Blake Butler—

    Agreed on Wild Boys. that’s my favorite.