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" I did not finish. Don't know how to say I started and gave up on a book here. Can anyone advise me? "
- Judy, 2/20/2014
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" Just: drugs. "
- Micki, 2/18/2014
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" I had to read this for a Psychopharmacology course. I absolutely hated the experience of reading this book. I am pretty open-minded, but the vulgar and obscene imagery was very difficult to get through. However, reading this book did illustrate its purpose that illicit psychotropic drugs can really mess up a person... especially authors. "
- Kristen, 2/3/2014
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" Being neither an addict nor a user (nor a pedophile), maybe I'm not qualified to read, much less comment on Naked Lunch. There were some passages that were brilliant, but most of it, well, not so much. But at least now I can say I read (and finished - somehow) Burroughs' masterpiece. I just hope no one asks me why, because I'm asking myself the same thing. "
- Dale, 2/2/2014
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" Everyone knows I love the beats. Ginsberg is my idol and Kerouac changed my life. But I'm going to be very honest here, this book is disgusting. It makes no sense, is boring, and is disgusting. There I said it. "
- Haylee, 1/30/2014
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" Man, props to Burroughs for writing the first book that forced me to quit due to obscenity. Hassan's Rumpus Room (which includes several extremely brutal descriptions of sodomizing a young boy) is one of the most reprehensible things to ever be put on paper. "
- Brett, 1/29/2014
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" Weird!!! "
- Andy, 1/14/2014
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" I know should have tried harder to read this, but I just couldn't force myself "
- Anne, 1/13/2014
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" Didn't actually finish the book. Couldn't do it. I made it about halfway and decided that the visualization I got in my head were too disturbingly disgusting. Too much for me to handle. "
- Cara, 12/23/2013
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" Made it to page 65 and decided this was not for me. Too disgusting. "
- Andrew, 12/18/2013
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" weeeiiiiirrrddddd "
- Tyler, 11/29/2013
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" Bullshit! Extreamly vivid imagery of every type of depraved pornographic bullshit an opium adelled genius could describe. "
- Ed, 11/21/2013
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" I am having a bit of a difficult time understanding what's going on but I like how it's twisting my brain in knots. Hopefully I can untangle them when I reach the end. "
- Ashton, 10/28/2013
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" Hated it. Abandoned it at around 50 pages in. Pointlessly foul. "
- Kirsten, 7/6/2013
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" One good thing came out of this rambling, drug-fueled ode to chaos and immersion in psychotropic paranoia. That was the name "Steely Day" for a remarkable 70s band. In the novel it was the name of a dildo. "
- John, 3/15/2013
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" a classic! yuck. "
- Alice, 11/17/2012
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" I have an English literature degree from a top uni and I am an English teacher but I have to freely admit that I did not get this book. I am now reading junky which is fantastic but this had to go down as one of the most overrated tracts of drivel of all time. "
- Bianca, 9/29/2012
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" A rough read. I can now, however, understand the comparisons to A Modest Proposal. "
- Ns, 9/14/2012
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" I did read most of this book because I felt it was an important and influential book of the 20th Century. However, I hated it!!! It is very disturbing, as I believe it was meant to be. Not my kind of literature. "
- Audrey, 6/15/2012
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" Hated it. Don't even bother... "
- Christine, 11/7/2011
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" I like anything that surprises me. This surprised me. Compared to the other beat writers, it was more interesting. By the time I got to the ape surgeon in South America, I said... wow. "
- Yong, 10/30/2011
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" What can be said here ~ if you've heard of it, if you are marginally interested in it ~ read it. A life changing read. Truly bizzarre. One of the most raw satires that's ever been produced. "
- Jared, 10/1/2011
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" Because it would be rude not to give it any stars. "
- Shelby, 8/27/2011
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" Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs (Grove Press 1959)(Fiction) is about a drug addict by a drug addict? A classic of what? Nevermind...2/10, finished 5/16/11.
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- Dave, 5/16/2011
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" One of the quintessential novels of American decadence, perversion, and intellectual violence. It is without equal in it's descent into deviance.
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- Ross, 5/14/2011
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" Fragmented vignettes in no order whatsoever. You could start reading it from the middle to the beginning then from the end to the middle and it won't matter. To me, it was a drag reading it, but nevertheless it is a 20th century classic.
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- Yahya, 5/8/2011
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" I liked the theory behind it more than actually reading it, the cut-up technique can get tedious in it's anti-structure.
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- Andy, 4/8/2011
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" Brief passages of genius that are worth reading even through all the muck and slim of the drug addled hallucinations.
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- Benjamin, 4/7/2011
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" this is a plot-less rag of paper...
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- Gavin, 4/7/2011
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" This is part of the Times Best list. I totally disagree. It is just awful. It consists of a series of ramblings about drugs, murder and sex.
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- M, 4/4/2011
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" Is Burroughs a genius or a junky who writes like a genius? At this point, I don't think I care.
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- Annie, 3/30/2011
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" One of my favorite books, enjoy the movie but go to the true masterpiece afterwards which is the text.
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- David, 3/28/2011
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