After watching Naked Lunch with Matt, I bought a copy of the book from the used bookstore.
I went through a whole bottle of Advil trying to finish it.
It wasn‘t a novel.
It was chaos.
I didn‘t admit that to anyone. Instead, I told people I loved it. I told people Uncle Bill was a genius. Brilliant. I pretended to get it. This impressed Matt‘s friends. It made me likeable.
Graywacke That‘s funny. I found NL unreadable. Had no idea what I was reading or what to do about it. So I gave up 11mo
Lindy @Graywacke I probably would have given up as well. Save the Advil for something worthwhile. 😉 11mo
azulaco I put Burroughs and his friends in the category of boy books. Boys/men think they are amazing and brilliant for some reason, but objectively they aren‘t that great. A lot of Hemingway falls into this category for me as well. #notimpressed I‘m sorry for the sexist comment…I‘d be infuriated if a man dismissed my favorite literature as girl books, but then women‘s writing *does* get easily dismissed as chick lit, doesn‘t it? Not Toni Morrison, but.. (edited) 11mo
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Lindy @azulaco Yes, I encounter dismissal of women‘s writing all the time. 😞 11mo
TrishB @azulaco I always put American Psycho in that bracket.. 11mo
Lindy @TrishB That‘s another book I‘ve never wanted to read. 11mo
TrishB You‘re not missing anything, except misogynistic violence, that the author always says is satire and I‘m obviously too stupid to realise. 11mo
Lindy @TrishB In Gurba‘s book, she writes about the tactics male misogynists use to subjugate their wives and girlfriends. Justifying their behaviour as “a joke” is common. Like the man who repeatedly told his kids “If your mother isn‘t here when you come home from school, look under the ground in the back yard, right where the dog is buried.” 11mo
TrishB Yep- I definitely recognise that. (Not personally!! Professionally though). (edited) 11mo
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