>gets hooked on junk>falls into patterns of crime and depravity>fucks over anyone and everyone around him>waaa America is falling into an anti junk hysteria so I'm just gonna stay in Mexico, a more civilized country>it's literally not bad it's just a way of life
Every book he writes is a gay junky MC doing the worst shit a human being can do and then complaining that people don't like gay junkies.
>>25339038It's the remit of literature to illuminate life and extend experience. Junky does that. It reveals a world most of us have never considered.In short, it expands the mind. How revealing that is was lost on you ...
>>25339038It just makes me sad because there is no heroin anymore since roughly 2012 or even proper opiate pills it's just fentanyl which makes you feel roughly like you drank a quart of liquor. It's a shit buzz, nobody wants it, but the cartels force it on us. This is capitalism at work. Even tar is mostly fentanyl at this point. Capitalism ruins every single fucking thing.
>>25339784>This is capitalism at workIt's the capitalists who prohibit drugs? Big if true.
>>25339852If opiates were legal it would collapse the economy because people would all be like sleepy Joe Biden, just ask the Chinese. For fuck's sake I'd drive to Baltimore and buy some dope right now if I hadn't had 13 beers already.
>>25339038Good book that felt like reading GTA: 1950Could have done without the gay sex reference
>>25339864>If opiates were legal it would collapse the economyWhy? Do you think the economy is short of labour? If the druggies didn't show up for work, they'd just hire more beaners.Besides, meth, fent and weed are so abundant that their legal status barely matters anymore.
>>25339038Didnt he shoot his wife?
>>25339784capitalism was oxycontin dude
>>25340023And got away with it. Lucky bastard.
I just finished Naked Lunch after putting it off for years. I found that there are many moments of brilliance but I also found myself genuinely bored reading it at times. I think I understand what he's trying to do but I feel like it's so one note that it can't even fill 200 pages. Schizophrenic rambling opens doors to profound and poetic expression but it also easily becomes meandering. It's something you have to be a Pynchon to pull off. I'd still probably reread it some time or even just pick it up and read random sections on a whim. Should I try Junky?
>>25340156Junky and Queer are his best books, they read like actual novels instead of pomo slop.
>>25340156It's the only book by him I own and am going to read (Junky)Read On The Road and Big Sur by Jack Kerouac and then read JunkyIt feels like a trilogy that jumps roughly from 1950 to 1960 and then back to 1950And I'm not positive but I'm almost positive Jack Kerouac makes an appearance in Junky towards the start and is literally named JackI can only take so much of Kerouac's writing styleAlmost read Dharma Bums and Subterraneans but after finishing OTR and Big Sur I was ready to move onThose two books flowed nicely in a "10 years later" kind of way
>>25339776Fair point, makes me feel a little better about the time I spent on this book.And at least Burroughs is mostly self aware of his depravity and the depravity of fags and junkies. Still, his gloating about American anti narcotic hysteria at the end of this book was hilarious considering all that he had just written. Maybe he was trolling
I always thought smoking opium was kind of /lit/. Injecting is too grisly though. It’s a shame they closed the opium dens in favor of shooting galleries
>>25341670Absolutely right. Opium is a providence of nature. Opiates are a perversion of mankind.
Burroughs is the only one of the beats worth reading and Junky is probably his best novel. So if you didn't like this, don't bother with any of the others.
>>25342418Thank you anon, briefly considered on the road and dabbling in Hunter S Thompson but I'll take your word for it.
>>25339879The gay sex is central to Burroughs' entire schtick, though, even moreso than the drugs.
