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  THIS SUCKS!

  by Sparky

  10 years ago

  This book had no depth what-so-ever! It is exactly what it is, a deranged drug induced dream that is sickening. I have never read anything like this, and I'm glad, not to say the least. Naked lunch doesn't have a plot line, it is mearly a series of thoughts strung together in no particular order, jumping from spot to spot. Mabey i've missed the point of this novel, but personaly, i feel that there isn't a point. Some parts of this novel disgusts me, for instence, the part where Burroughs is disgusing the woman shooting up opium, and how she's ripping her leg apart, then goes on to talk about what it realy looks like to shoot up opium, and the waxy skin of a junky, it disturbed me. A Clockwork Orange also disturbed me, but at least it did it with class, Naked Lunch has no class. If you realy want to be disgusted, take the book out of the library, and don't buy this BS.

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  Slip into the hidden creavace of reality

  by Don L.

  10 years ago

  This book really gets to me. It's got all of the bells & whistles of taking an altered trip, including extreme hallucinations, time-shifts and paranoia. ( I can feel the heat closing in. -first sentence.) It's dark, twisted, demented, funny, contemplating, with a pure anti-heroin finallity. Bill comes to many conclusions on various levels, touching everything from power-abuse to medical abuse, to sex abuse and all other things that are happening either without our knowledge, or without our care. I've read somewhere that this is a cut n paste job made for artistic value to deviate from what readers are used to --but this is irrelevant. It's a masterpiece of political commentary, looking deep from within the mind of one of those who are in the midst of what is really happening... seeming to use drugs in order to cope with it... and realizes the horrid state of affairs Western society is actually emmersed in. Put Bill Burroughs alongside Samuel Beckett, George Orwell and Oscar Wilde, in t

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  Naked Lunch

  by Michelle Dubois

  13 years ago

  This book is wild, lets U R imagination go to the outter limits of U R mind. Being a former Heroin addict I found this book totally refreshing frm a junkie's point of view. If you always wanted to experience a trip, then definitly read this outlandish story into the unknown, its well written and all will be able to follow the extraordinary tales of Bill..........have fun it's well worth it....