so-soNaked Lunch is very successful at inserting you into a paranoid, dysfunctional, disorientating and disturbing world of addiction whilst critiquing the society which enables it. However, it is a tough and brutal book to read in more ways than one. 6/10
panI should have known by now I don‘t like books about drugs. This one adds a lot of bodily fluids and genitals and, I give you that @TrishB , some wonderful sentences. Poetry maybe. Raw poetry. I can see why Burroughs was an inspiration to Numan and so many others back in the days but to me it was a struggle to finish. #1001books
bailedI'm all for experimental, so I was eager to read this. I had some difficulty with the style at first, but got into the rhythm quickly. I heard over and over it isn't meant to be read in order so I flipped through. But I just can't read this book. I understand why some things make no sense because drugs, but it's needlessly disturbing, like he put things in there just for shock value; I hate when people do that.
Maybe I will revisit some day.
panI heard so many interesting remarks about this book. So maybe for some this is different in a good way. This wasnt a novel or even a story. It's more the random thoughts of a junkie. For me, it was super confusing, and exhausting to read.
It‘s been a while since I posted an used book store haul! $1 trade paperbacks for the month of May 👍.
The trees have changed since the last time (two months ago) I took a book haul picture from this spot 😃🌳🌿🍃🌳
Tagged book is a #1001Books (as is Candide).
1. I find William S. Burroughs completely unreadable. I‘ve tried two of his books and just can‘t.
2. I buy and pack. I prefer packing but it takes more work.
3. I‘ll copy @j9brown and say all of middle school.
4. This is hard, probably Disney World smells. Can‘t pick just one.
5. Black Swann
#friyayintro @howjessreads
📖Naked Lunch -William S. Burroughs
✍️Vladimir Nabokov
📽No Country for Old Men
📺New Girl
Nachos
#manicmonday #lettern
I read "Junky" by William S. Burroughs last year and enjoyed it, this one seems even more crazy!
Fun that Jack Keurac suggested the title "The title means exactly what the words say: naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork."
This book will be one wild ride!?
#classics
#fiction
#Bookhaul from our morning at the antique shop. The tagged book for the #100EssentialNovels poster, The Once and Future King after reading H is for Hawk, and the Biltmore book because I love that house!
I think if I was #highforthis I might have gotten through it 😂 #aprella
This makes sense, considering the book does not. I suggest reading the last 80-something pages, before you try the first 200; they explain his, uh, thought processes or lack thereof. It‘s not necessarily a bad book, especially when you understand the backstory. Just don‘t expect it to flow with much logic.
Drugs are bad m‘kay?
“The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
@teebe The package arrived today; snail mail took 3 months 😅 Thank you soooo much; it's very kind of you to send me these fabulous items. I love them all 😍 So here's a photo with all the books from BookDepository. Thank you, again! This is definitely the highlight of the week! 💃🏻
Look down at my trousers, they haven't been changed in months...The Spanish boys call me El Hombre Invisible - the Invisible Man...
panFinished on my flight home from Alabama and I honestly have no idea what I just read. It was mostly just a jumble of words that sometimes made sense but mostly made absolutely no sense whatsoever. I 100% understand why it was a banned book, and if I believed in book censorship I would say it probably should still be banned. I have been made more stupid by reading this book and can't believe I actually allowed myself to finish it. #NakedLunch
I tried for a few weeks with this one and usually I like reading books that don't have an obvious plot but this is a whole other level of confusing! I wanted to like it and I might give it another go at some point but for now it's #notforme #jubilantjuly
Reading two Beat-classics at once and loving every single word 💕 #beats #kerouac #poetry #burroughs
so-soDafuq did I just read?
Not sure my shelves get any madder. #madworld #lyricalapril
so-soWritten during a years-long morphine addiction. I can't even give away anything because I'm not even sure what I read. I'll tell you this: It's graphic, not for the squeamish and worth a second read if you really want to fully digest it...*lunch pun, for the win* 72/1,001 #1001Books #RoryGilmoreChallenge
#readjanuary #fortheloveoffonts "I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune." Naked Lunch. Read this in college and seems like such a college/early 20s read. Not sure what I'd think of it now.
This is a pretty crazy book but once you get to this chapter, the crazy just goes to a whole new level.
Healthy post-workout lunch! @MrBook and I went for a nice long refreshing walk around our neighborhood, and the cold air felt so invigorating! Satiating my worked-up appetite with some sautéed kale and low-fat cottage cheese with cucumber and dill. Mmmm! ?
#day25 #somethingforsept #bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek Just a small sampling of amazing books small fearful minds have tried to challenge and ban. The world is a better place with these books in it. If you don't agree that's ok ... just don't pick up a copy someone else will gladly pick it up.
To be read in honor of a friend's passing. Here's to you Rich Meyer. I'll give it a try.
Day 15: This has to be the weirdest book I've ever read. Still not sure what it was about, but I think it was written from the perspective of someone on an acid trip. Weirder was that it was given to me in a Secret Santa exchange by someone I really didn't know & I never got to ask him WTF. #somethingforsept #weirdbooks
My "stolen" haul. These were my big brother's, but are now mine because he left them in our parent's basement for a few years. I decided they needed a new home and so they now have one.
Like new shoes make a small child run faster, I'm sure my new banned books mug will help me write better. It lists banned books when hot and redacts some of the text when cold. Plus my new banned books matches, for scale.
Remembering William S. Burroughs, who died on this day, Aug 2, in 1997. #OOPquote
Some new books from today and from last week.
pickMy very first Beat book (and the only copy in my small bookstore in the province. Imagine my glee!). It's a non-linear narrative of drugs and road trips, so you gotta concentrate!
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