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Title: Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk" by William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris ISBN: 0-14-200316-6 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (73 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Spitting at the Junk-Sick Dawn
Comment: I have to say this is the best drugprevention leaflet I have ever read. Sure Bill had some fun as well, but mostly he was sick, broke and in jail. And always looking for the next fix. Burroughs describes the lows and highs of a junkie's life, and reveals the process of addiction, in such a painstakingly detailed manner there really is no need left to ever go there yourself. My favorite scene is the one in which the heroin has left him so constipated he has to reach in with his fingers and pull 'it' out. This book is nowhere near as good as Burroughs' later work, but check it out anyway.
Rating: 4
Summary: The sad story of Bill Lee in a more reader-friendly format
Comment: Drugs take a cynical drifter through a path of hopelessness, addiction, police interrogations, unsuccessful treatments and the drug subcultures of New York, New Orleans and finally, Mexico City. Junky is a lite version of Borrough's classic, Naked Lunch, a version of Burrough's autobiographical tale that is easier to read without Naked Lunch's fanaticisms, savagery, wry humor and nonlinear story telling. Like Naked Lunch, Junky was first published under the pseudonym of Bill Lee, the name of the main character and the reader discovers little of Lee's personality and being. In fact, a common law wife appears suddenly and quietly during the middle of the Junky's New Orleans portion while countless detailed descriptions of the smallest aspects of drug addiction, withdrawal and culture appear throughout the book and that is the point. Lee's being has become a mere host for his addiction and that's what makes Junky such a harrowing, compelling and heart wrenching novel.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the essential reads of the Beat culture.
Comment: One of the most honestly written texts I have ever read. Junky chronicles Borrough's life on the streets of NY as a 'junky'. The vivid and graphic details of how an addicted man makes it through daily life were a very eye opening experience. The story may be time-sensitive because but its basic voice is still as fresh as it was when first conceived by the author.
The reading is impressionable during and after. I did not want to put the book down during the read. After I was done, I had this bitter taste of junk in my mouth. That is enough said for Borrough's effectiveness as a writer.
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Title: Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs ISBN: 0802132952 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe ISBN: 0553380648 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams ISBN: 0872860175 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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