pickSpurred by the (way too long imho) movie I finally picked up a copy of Queer. Interesting and descriptive in its time and places, somewhat disjointed, not entirely satisfying but still good. More accessible than his later works. His protagonist isn‘t exactly likeable but I don‘t believe that is the intent. Glad to have finally read it.
pan✅ Another strange book marked off the 1001 list! Thankfully, it was short & fairly easy to follow at double speed. It‘s a disjointed mishmash of stories with way too much graphic M/M sex for me. Some scenes were interesting in how they were repetitively told with slight variations, but I didn‘t get the point. It wasn‘t as difficult of a read as de Sade‘s Justine, but I‘m giving it the same kind of rating.
#1001books #audiobook #DeweysReadathon
“Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine“
“Storm the Reality Studio. And retake the universe.
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Remembering William S. Burroughs on his birthday.
so-soThere are moments of brilliance with some beautiful turns of phrase, and best when reading is uninterrupted. Unfortunately, some of it is barely accessible- you read for feel not content. Burroughs is not for everybody.
#NovemberNarrative #Pins&needlesday I found this unusual little lion pin cushion at an antique fair in my neighborhood.I adore it.
Today's reading
so-soExterminator! is a loose collection of short stories billed as a novel, which serves as a neat metaphor for a lot of WB's writing - asserting itself to be something greater than it is. The man has a vivid imagination, and there are bursts of narrative brilliance here, but unfortunately they're buried beneath a mountain of "experimental" gobbledygook - by which I mean a lack of punctuation, bizarre paragraph structures, and random POV shifts...?
