Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Naked Lunch
Book Review: what more can you say?
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes what more can you say about a book that has so settled itself in the collective mind and that itself points a knife to anybody who dares to say something, because it deals with all the lies we build up in our addiction to life and fear of death? Through all the noise a silence emanates from this turmoil of 'written pages'. His cut up trilogy would give words to that feeling, here it only exists in the mind of the reader who gets knocked out. But it is such an exhillarating book at the same time that with all the death smell in it you come to suspect that the writer has a deep love for the truth of being. The hatred he spits out is that of disgust for the trampling of just that truth, and he sees himself as an agent for this. A double agent, fallen victim to the enemy and struggling to escape from this untrue situation. There the book has a key to our sympathy. He engages us in his own battle, showing we are all double agents. And his language is so fresh and direct and full of images and sounds from the street that you are sucked into its world. And transformed. Dont't mistake Naked Lunch for a drugdream. Passages may be written under the influence, but it is the attempted transcending of all influences and control that lend this master piece its lucidity.Book Review: what nightmares are made of
Summary: 5 Stars
i see how some people fail to understand why Naked Lunch is indeed one of the greatest books of this century - the first contact with it leaves you shocked, disoriented. There is no real storyline one could easily explain, nor are the characters defined - Burroughs instead creates atmosphere, litle bits of subreality, and ends up with a world that is in a way more real than it oughta be - he is not afraid of loading it with an oddball mix of tiny stories, poems, events, descriptions and dialogues that dont have much to do with the 'main' story - as long as it's one huge nightmare, he keeps pushing it - and you simply have to enjoy it, even if you cant really tell why. Take a stab at this great book! Special thanks, too, to the guy who recommended that book by richard perez -- The Losers Club, maybe the best recommendation i've had in months.Book Review: what's going on in the world?
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't know how to really review a book of such. People labeling it like "for the sadist and masochistic" or "uncatagorized" being shallow in their depths.
Purly a book that steady recognizes how threatening it's ideas are to the reader ( or should i say "the subject"), any reader, no matter what opinion of individualism, even collective, holds. The fact the book dislocates your rationale on theory's of idea & concept as the subject as a matter a fact surly evokes all sorts of relative opinions being irrelivent and irreverent in compartive. I'm not one to talk anyway; but this book obviously did and still does take no prisoners, "and no holes barred!".
As complicating and de-escalating as the book allows itself to be you still find an inhibited coherence staggering uninterupted through the course of every sentence; something too horrowing and complete, history driven, eccentricly riveting and fanaticaly innocent among the happenings of humanity that drove the author to write.
Without a doubt the scariest book ever written.
The concept of dehumanization can not be ignored by anyone who lives, and in pieced-part what the book may be about. The book takes egocentric forms of fantasy, adventursome, vision, experience, rebellion, terror & sabatauge on a universal scale beyond peaks of mear interest and just might make you look at everything including prehistoric events differently.
A physicality lives inside the book, pages turned.
It has everything from pirates to aliens, information classified about past events and future even if the imagionable is the only thing that recongnizes or comprehends.
"With it and for it."
Book Review: you've got to delve deeper
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a personal favorite of mine, I've enjoyed it ever since the second time i read it. The first time I read it, I was quite taken aback at the, umm, interesting content. Past that, I was totally confused, and bewildered. In order to "understand" the book, one must know it's background. Burroughs wrote those words not to confuse the reader, but because they made sense to him at the time, he was going through withdrawal, and in that state, anything goes. If the people who wrote reviews before me had not liked the book because they didn't understand it, what they needed to do was go learn more about Burroughs, and read some of his other books that do make more sense. I highly recommend "Queer", and "Junky" as guides to the perplexed. and, above all, nothing beats listening to that voice on the audiobook, everything will snap into place, it's a very good book, but you've got to do your homework first.