56% of the way thru Naked Lunch. Really enjoying it despite how weird and hallucinatory it is. I would have hated it had I been younger.BTW, does anyone else see how Burroughs inspired Hunter S Thompson? Who else did Burroughs influence?
>>25340559>BTW, does anyone else see how Burroughs inspired Hunter S Thompson?I very much saw that. So much so it actually made me like the book less because I couldn't stop thinking how much I liked Fear and Loathing every other paragraph which reminded me of it
>>25340559>I would have hated it had I been younger.Strange, I adored Burroughs in my late teens and early 20s, but now in my mid/late-20s I find his work hard to tolerate. I still respect it, though.
>>25340579I'm basing that on having been traumatized by In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan in my early twenties. Never again. What a depressing, eerie fever dream.
>>25340602>Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganDoes it really compare to Burroughs? I debated picking a copy up recently but assumed it would be typical counter-culture slop like Pinecone. Also to get the most out of Burroughs I recommend reading Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs by Matthew Levi Stevens. Helps decode Burroughs' more occult ideas and themes.
>>25340610>Does it really compare to Burroughs?Kind of. It's equally weird, but much more unsettling, somehow. i-Death is paradise, never forget the tigers, and watch out for the river trout.
>>25340610not sure there is really an occult to decode. theres people and the algebra of need. what else?
