>book about young faggots rebelling against mankind and destroying the West in the aftermath of an ill-defined apocalypseIs it worth reading? I know Burroughs is a hack and pedo like all the non-Kerouac Beat writers, but this one sounds interesting given it's basically Mad Max mixed with A Clockwork Orange and given a fag angle. Seems like it could be accidentally/unintentionally based.
>>24748716Go back.
Yes.
Genuinely depressing to think I will never be part of a post-apocalyptic Männerbund
>>24748716Didn't Duran Duran write a song about this book?
The Dead Child is a beautiful, surreal story. Burroughs embodied the only noble thing about the American ethos which is/was Freedom.Nevertheless, OP talks like a retard and doesn't deserve to read it. Drop dead.
>>24748716It is one of his best books but you won't get anything out of it unless you're already acquainted with Burroughs's work.
>>24749067>Didn't Duran Duran write a song about this book?Not only did they make a song about it, the song was intended for a movie version that never got made. That's how I stumbled upon this book.>>24749264>you won't get anything out of it unless you're already acquainted with Burroughs's work.I already am, I've just never read it given my hesitation about Beat stuff in general.
>>24749058>I will never be part of a post-apocalyptic MännerbundIt might happen sooner than later in certain parts of the world, the U.S especially
>>24749058it's happening tomorrow
>>24748716>Burroughs is a hack and pedo like all the non-Kerouac Beat writersHe's the only literate and proper canon candidate out of all of them and true inheritor of Eurofag interwar decadents and Celine in particular, with surreal and science fiction elements-- give the late work a chance in general.
>>24750174>give the late work a chance in general.Yeah I think I will. I love Naked Lunch and think it was very ahead of its time thematically (it's the defining beatfag book along with On the Road for a reason), my issue has more to do with his other stuff like Queer and Junkie that are constantly fellated by the most insufferable people on the planet.
