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Anonymous
06/30/26(Tue)16:34:47 No.25375477

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Anonymous 06/30/26(Tue)16:34:47 No.25375477

I didn't really like Burroughs' first book, Junky. Is his other work worth reading?

Anonymous
06/30/26(Tue)16:40:07 No.25375484

Anonymous 06/30/26(Tue)16:40:07 No.25375484

>>25375477
Naked Lunch is a schizo manual on de-brainwashing yourself from CIA brainwashing. His letters are also extremely interesting.
The Red Night Trilogy and The Wild Boys are good as well. They're far more experiemntal and surreal compared to the hardboiled Junky.

Anonymous
06/30/26(Tue)17:02:22 No.25375536

Anonymous 06/30/26(Tue)17:02:22 No.25375536

>>25375484
Pretry good summary.

Anonymous
06/30/26(Tue)17:12:51 No.25375555

Anonymous 06/30/26(Tue)17:12:51 No.25375555

>>25375484
I'll probably try Naked Lunch then see what I think. Thank u anon

Anonymous
06/30/26(Tue)22:14:46 No.25376040

Anonymous 06/30/26(Tue)22:14:46 No.25376040

>>25375477
Nova Express is his best work and that will be apparent to you from the first chapter

Anonymous
06/30/26(Tue)22:18:10 No.25376050

Anonymous 06/30/26(Tue)22:18:10 No.25376050

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>>25375555
Nice quads.
Don't fall for it though anon, he's trolling you. Burroughs was obviously a CIA asset and Naked Lunch is an MKULTRA priming ritual just like modern art and beatnik/grunge media

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