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Summary: genious
Review: Must read for anyone who likes beat
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Summary: For the weak of heart, better left alone.
Review: This is undoubtedly the most DISTURBING book I have ever read. Despite what others may think, it is impossible to map out a plotline for this story, which doesn't seem like a story at all. Burroughs, has put together a piece of literature which teaches us that the cute little bunny rabbit with the big sad weepy black eye's, is also someone elses dinner. For anyone who wants to take a journey down the road of heroine addiction, open the book and start reading
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Summary: Just keep reading; you'll be glad you did it.
Review: My hat is off to William S. Burroughs for the ugly blatentness of this, his much acclaimed and often under-acclaimed masterpiece. It is not at all a pleasant book to read, except in the parts where his disturbing wit surfaces. The words at first glance burn our eyes but widen them all the same. It is not, however until they infiltrate your gut that they start to do the real damage. The narrative format is realistically choppy in consequence to how the then narcotics addict author thought.No other book this century affected in whole all that Burroughs's Naked Lunch did. The obcenity trial following its 1960s United States publication virtually ended literary censorship in America. Good God, if you aren't convinced to read it now, what are you even doing reading these reviews?
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Summary: The Best
Review: Burroughs at his best. A must read for anyone wanting to start reading Burroughs or hasnt read it yet.
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Summary: Amazing! The Jewish aspect was overwhelming!
Review: What would the world do without this kind of book? It brought back so many memoreies of my Jewish childhood, that it must be one if the most enthralling experiences I've had in years!
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Summary: most overrated book of the century
Review: What is the point of all this?? It begs to be read as an example of how you can fool people into believing you have something to say. It is just a long trip from old William, but heck, anyone can get high and write nonsense. Besides, irreverent tone (remember the accursed poets?), rupture of the traditional narrative (remember Joyce?), surrealistic experience (remember Breton himself?)... let's face it: William Burroughs was a rebel, and an elocuent icon of what contemporary ideology hates, and an incredibly strong figure at that; however, that does not make him a good writer, much less a literary vanguardist, only a critic. Naked Lunch is the living proof of the author's wit, given his ultimate status as a popular icon... evidence of how something exotic or irrational can automatically be taken as interesting or avant-grade.
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Summary: An amazing yet hard to follow drug dream
Review: I found it to be an amazing and insiteful look into the heart of a man riddled with addiction.The things expressed in this book may seem disgusting or displeasing but read on and you will trully be entertained
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Summary: One of the most important novels ever written.
Review: "Naked Lunch" is an incredible book for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that somebody had the balls to think this stuff up and write it down. It's a pity William S. Burroughs never again reached this level in his writing, but where do you go from the top? As the artistic embodiment of an argument against censorship "Naked Lunch" is almost without peer. This is a gritty, harrowing, often laugh-out-loud funny book, that will turn many stomachs, but resonate deeply with many minds.
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Summary: listen up wiseguys
Review: This book is important now as ever. Think of it as a public service announcement, a warning against heroin. More important today as there are 3 times as many users than there were 10 years ago. I can't help but think that if some of these users had first read this book they'd have never started. That's because Naked Lunch draws the peramiters of hell on earth and hell on earth is caused by pure and total addiction. Addiction to drugs, sex, political power or what have you. It's not an easy read because much of the prose style is fragmented, just as our actual thoughts are...but if you take time to examine some of these paragraph length fragments, more often than not you'll be rewarded with thought provoking insight, and sometimes with lyrical poetry. And then sometimes you'll just be discusted. But you don't wade neck deep through Borroughs filth and get nothing in return. He's dredged the bottom and brought back some important messages. I suggest not begining this book at the begining but randomly opening it to the middle and begining. Read it at random just as it was written and you'll get more out of it. Finally, if the US government were a bit more hip they'd be wise to how much this book could help them in their anti-drug campaign. Naked Lunch is a friend to the US government? Now that would really make Buroughs roll in his grave.
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Summary: Naked Lunch, a divine underworld of the mind.
Review: His work is like a dark mosaic and I do recommend this book and all his other work. I recommend the audio stories and poems on CD's and the film "Naked Lunch". BRAVO to Burroughs, a great dead friend...a divine master in literature. END
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