
Naked Lunch
The Restored Text
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Mark Bramhall
This is an unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and, ultimately, a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone. The restored text includes many editorial corrections and incorporates Burroughs's notes on the text and several essays he wrote over the years about the book. For the Burroughs enthusiast and neophyte alike, this is a valuable and fresh experience of this classic of our culture.
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"A masterpiece. A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying, and savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination and fierce, exact satire." ( Newsweek)
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Vivid! Tactile! Viseral!
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Burroughts is clearly an amazing writer and the book just flows from one area to the next but the story itself is hard to wrap your head around. I don't think that you can fully understand unless you have been trapped it the claws of addictions.
I am really glad I listened and I will probably listen to it again just to try to digest more of the shocking and often disgusting story.
I really don't know how to explain it
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Poetic Filth
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See it as a chronicling of debauchery, madness, and addiction.
Awesome!
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.to hear his oldest son reading "Naked Lunch" out loud to a couple of his siblings... Oh how that warms the cockles of my heart x)
Just knowing the story of Burroughs excruciating journey through the process of writing Naked Lunch and how it was conceived in dozens of countries through countless trips... of the mind, spirit and the reality of Earthen humanity itself! It really blew my wad (of course I'm referring to my mind-wad, or at least I would be if I were referencing the hatchet job Anti-Drug movie about people who are addicted to pow[ered bugs, goddammit!d) What in the actual...!?!? if Cronenberg was so worried about making a movie that could possibly make it seem as if drugs are a part of the real world; ugly, shameful, ..! deadly, life-saving, miraculous , sanity restoring (or the exact opposite), why do it? I loved the fly, and I had never read Naked Lunch when it came out then I was still a little young to even understand drug references yet, but now that I've been able to listen to this audiobook multiple times, and I was old enough to still remember what that movie was like , powderized bugs and talking anuses Etc . I would love to hear David Cronenberg defend this disaster piece. Or at least, admit he didn't quite understand that William, himself, was writing from HIS own soul, the one he experienced. It had many lenses in place that added something, possibly like pure cognitive distortions of his entire spirit, or removal of the filters which keep lesser men in their place, unable to reach out to the empty vacuum and pull back the veil of humanity... with all its glorious flaws, true evil, wildest loves and the nature of being honest with yourself, about yourself
End of story. The problem with drugs is that people get addicted to them and it changes their lives in irreparable ways! He could have made a movie Burroughs (may have) respected, without ever resorting to the utter absurdity of "Crone'd Lunch"
As an act of completely disparaging the author's wishes, his true intentions, decades of motivations and insights affording one hell of a contribution to the literature of contemporary, early-mid 20th century America... Good boy David x)
I'd say that even despite some of the pitiful moments of "joy" (¿no not quite joy? but anyway) that these characters were barely able to glean for mere moments. The descriptive taste chosen to bring these fleeting moments of dull, pale color... the tiniest bit of a spark to lives already so boring, ordinarily drab, grey... damn spectral lines forming a humanoid, even if only for a brief, sad moment.
Maybe everyone in America should have to read this book before they turn 21! At least they could gain somea small modicum of perspective.
Do yourself a favor, buy your ticket, & take the damn ride. Learn something if you can
For Christ's sake
Unfilmable book? Maybe but they shoulda left it be
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Awesome except for all the boys and junk
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If you could sum up Naked Lunch in three words, what would they be?
lost numbing cultWhat other book might you compare Naked Lunch to and why?
Most other work outside the beat genre would be offended by a comparison.What about Mark Bramhall’s performance did you like?
This was an almost perfect match for the narrator.If you could rename Naked Lunch, what would you call it?
Fasten your seatbelt and make sure your tray is in the upright position.Any additional comments?
Lude Crass & Indulging - if you want pretty, turn around now.Again please.
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Naked Lunch was my introduction to Burroughs. It was my introduction to a lot of things. It changed the way I think about writing and about books. If you are or have ever been a weirdo or an outcast or any number of such labels, read this book. Stick with it. This is an experience. You will learn. You will change. Or who knows, maybe you'll bounce off of it hard and swear to never read another Beat author again. But screw it, man. This is an important book. Read it.
A gamechanger to the uninitiated
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On another note, the narrator does a great job.
don't see good or bad, just what is
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