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”The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED lunch--a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of the fork.” The book title was suggested by Jack Kerouac. If not for the intervention of William S. Burroughs friends, Naked Lunch would have never seen the light of day. Peter Orlovs Leggi tutto

WARNING: nasty language ahead, including the use of some of my favorite phrases from the novel; these include such choice nuggets as mugwump jism and to turn a massacre into a sex orgy and a bubbly thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell and the subject will come at his whistle, shit on the fl Leggi tutto

The flaw of the 5-star rating system is in trying figure out whether you should award stars based on how much you liked a book, or based on how "good" you think a book is. These two criteria are often distinct from each other, and Naked Lunch, at least for me, is a perfect example of this. I think t Leggi tutto

So, basically, the meaningless drivel of the very first circuit boi? Seriously? Maybe I would have liked it better if I weren't already sick to death of all the hallucinatory narratives this book spawned. This is a structure that needed to be created only once to get the bastard over with and proper Leggi tutto

I made it just a little bit past the passage mentioning Steely Dan the dildo (actually, it's three generations of dildos all thriving under the Steely Dan name). And then, at the request of my old man who was sick of hearing me complain and puzzle over this book, I put it down for good. I don't like Leggi tutto

Call me a slacker, but why bother jotting down a critique for this surreal gem when the author has already nailed it in these very pages? Here you go... There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing … I am a recording instrument … I do not p Leggi tutto

Glenn Russell --- Speak to us straight about your Lunch that’s bare Twisted, dirty and anything but fair. Your words like needles sticking in our veins As you write of dopefiends, coke bugs and dames. William S. Burroughs --- Rube, the word we use in this world is junk You’ll hear straight without funny Leggi tutto