Litsy

Adding Machine | William S Burroughs

The free book table at my work has returned! 😆 I‘m sure some English instructor just cleared out their office, but I found a couple gems #BookHaul

AnnCrystal 😎📚💝. 4w

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Daisey

The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead | William Burroughs

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✅ Another strange book marked off the 1001 list! Thankfully, it was short & fairly easy to follow at double speed. It‘s a disjointed mishmash of stories with way too much graphic M/M sex for me. Some scenes were interesting in how they were repetitively told with slight variations, but I didn‘t get the point. It wasn‘t as difficult of a read as de Sade‘s Justine, but I‘m giving it the same kind of rating.

#1001books #audiobook #DeweysReadathon

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Bibliobear

The Soft Machine | William Burroughs

“Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine“

“Storm the Reality Studio. And retake the universe.
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Remembering William S. Burroughs on his birthday.

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Ladygodiva7

The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead | William Burroughs

Ideal book for October and it‘s #1001

Update: horrible book lol, do not recommend 😅

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Creadnorthey

My Education: A Book of Dreams | William S. Burroughs

so-so

There are moments of brilliance with some beautiful turns of phrase, and best when reading is uninterrupted. Unfortunately, some of it is barely accessible- you read for feel not content. Burroughs is not for everybody.

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SpaceCowboyBooks

The Burroughs File | William S. Burroughs

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Leftcoastzen

Dead Fingers Talk: The Restored Text | William S Burroughs

#NovemberNarrative #Pins&needlesday I found this unusual little lion pin cushion at an antique fair in my neighborhood.I adore it.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Love it!! 2y

vivastory I've never heard of this Burroughs work! (Have I ever told you about the diner I used to go to that he would frequent?) 2y

vivastory I just looked at the wikipedia page for this book & it sounds wild. A remix of his cutup novels?! 2y

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Leftcoastzen @vivastory I guess in his Lawrence era? Was it a good diner? I‘d would have probably freaked out to if I saw him, he would hate that!😁 2y

Leftcoastzen @vivastory so I read it so long ago , but I did recognize the mash up of the other books.This paperback was published in 77 , I just found it in some used bookstore not realizing at first,it was only published in the UK.It was in storage for years & was unaware of the new edition till I checked Wikipedia.😄 (edited) 2y

vivastory It was a diner in downtown KC. I never saw him there, but he would stop there for breakfast after going to KC from Lawrence for his methadone treatments. 2y

LeahBergen Love the pincushion! I thought it was a little bull. 😆 2y

Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen when I first saw it ,I thought the same thing, Bull.😁 2y

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SpaceCowboyBooks

William S. Burroughs' "the Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution | William S Burroughs

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The_Penniless_Author

Exterminator! A Novel | William S. Burroughs

so-so

Exterminator! is a loose collection of short stories billed as a novel, which serves as a neat metaphor for a lot of WB's writing - asserting itself to be something greater than it is. The man has a vivid imagination, and there are bursts of narrative brilliance here, but unfortunately they're buried beneath a mountain of "experimental" gobbledygook - by which I mean a lack of punctuation, bizarre paragraph structures, and random POV shifts...?

The_Penniless_Author ...an experiment that at this point I think we can say has been tested to death and proven largely a failure. Still a so-so because the guy could be a great writer when he felt like it. 4y

Schwifty Naked Lunch was the same. I could barely discern a narrative and meanwhile the passages that stood out to me were exceptionally graphic. 4y

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Bibliobear

Word Virus the William S. Burroughs Reader the William S. Burroughs Reader | William S Burroughs

“Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine“

“Storm the Reality Studio. And retake the universe.“

Remembering William S. Burroughs on his birthday.

(Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe.)

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