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Title: The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead by William S. Burroughs ISBN: 0-8021-3331-2 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wild Boys, not for the faint of heart, but a wonderful piece
Comment: If you liked Naked Lunch, you'll love Wild Boys. William S. Burroughs, in my opinion, one of the great American authors of the twentieth century, offers a tremendously beautiful and rich view into not only his mind, but our own in this book of the dead. Though woven with very visual secenes of homosexuality and even violence, Wild Boys is a rich and intense journey through the ideas of a beatnik and a modern philosopher, who happened to philosophize while addicted to many controlled and illegal substances. Wild Boys paints a picture of a post-apocalyptic world where bands of young boys live on the fringes of society, sometimes terrorizing those who would wander from society to the deserted lands beyond. Wild Boys and Naked Lunch are some of the ew books that have actually changed my perception of the world around me, and I am a different, and I would like to think better person for haveign experienced the "mind blow" that is Burroughs. Read it if you want to experience a new world.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read it if you wished Naked Lunch had been better.
Comment: After reading Burroughs' more famous novel, Naked Lunch, I was interested but disappointed. Burroughs was much too high when he wrote it and many parts an incoherant. However, the lucid intervals were very well written and I wanted to read a book he wrote when he was more in control. The Wild Boys is that book. A poignant masterpiece that will push anyone who reads close to tears. Far better than Naked Lunch, anyone who thinks Burroughs was a one-trick pony should read it.
Rating: 1
Summary: You All Are Beatnik Sheep
Comment: Quite simply this was the most tastless and ignorant piece of literature I have ever read. It seemed as if the book felt like convoluting any actual storyline with scenes of gratuitous and repetive sex. Is it just me or does everyone in this damned book seem to carry a tin of vaseline? I thought there were some interesting parts but, call me a prude or an ignorant little ... but I think this book was riding on the current of the Naked Lunch which has been the wave on which Burroughs had carried his wrinkly disgusting body upon. This book is pretty much like a David Lynch film. No one gets it, they just talk about it and pretend that they do so they look intelligent but quite simply they are just beatnik sheep ready for slaughter by the corporate identity you have tried so hard to avoid with your lies and propaganda of free intellectual thought, which is disguising your true ignorance and gullibility
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Title: The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs ISBN: 0802151507 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs ISBN: 0802133290 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk" by William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris ISBN: 0142003166 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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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: Queer by William S. Burroughs ISBN: 0140083898 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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