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Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson
My gf recently started reading a copy of William S. Burroughs' Junkie which a friend at work loaned her.
Guess she didnt realize I had a copy alongside both Queer and Naked Lunch sitting on the bookshelf in my basement. I've read both Junkie and Naked Lunch, but dont remember much.
Am I wrong in thinking that Burroughs is overrated? Like "ooo look at me I can rearrange sentences in nonsensical orders and I'm hooked on drugs and also gay woohoo"
Compared to like Vonnegut or someone, isnt Burroughs mostly read by pretentious twits?
What about Pynchon? Is he in the same boat or is Gravity's Rainbow actually enlightening? Was Burroughs' Naked Lunch even all that good? I'm certain the majority of it went over my head when I was like 17.
*continues making his way through Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind*
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Name of the Wind is a great book!
So is the sequel, “The Wise Man’s Fear.”
Still waiting for that third one.
Nice choice. I bought NOTW based on cover alone around the time it came out, and I was in a really big “literary fantasy” phase, and boy did it hit the spot.