Naked Lunch - William S Burroughs 1959
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- Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs - 2009
The Restored Text
By: William S. Burroughs
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-21-09
Language: English
Fiction -
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture.
William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914 and lived in Chicago, New York, Texas, Paris, Tangier, London, and Lawrence, Kansas, where he died in August 1997. He was the author of numerous books, including Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Ticket that Exploded, and The Wild Boys, and was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. James Grauerholz was William Burroughs’s longtime manager and editor, and is now his literary executor.
He claimed he was not an entertainer, but I found this highly entertaining and it may be one of thee
(sardonically) funniest books I've ever read/heard. Especially with this brilliant narrator.
Amazing narration of a prophetic book
I heard The Naked Lunch was originally published as a bunch of short stories and they can be read in any order. So I'm recording this and then I'll "cut it up" into chapters and listen to it on shuffle.
W.S.B. Would be proud of you.
It wasn’t published, but he had written a series of short stories/vignettes then he was influenced by the cut up style of (-) artist, and this inspired him to put them together in the form of a novel. However, it’s still a novel. Reading the chapters out of sequence does a disservice to the novel as a whole, as the order in which they are presented is important. (However, if you have already read it and prefer to go back to certain chapters after the fact, that’s different. I do the same with Ulysses and Gravity’s Rainbow)
I think Ginsboig and him had a thing then a falling out. Then WSB sent him the Dr. Benway bits and the Talking A- hole bit via mail, for editing, and maybe as a message out of spite.
Thank you! 🖤 Love Burroughs!
Thank you!
Thanks
Great thanks 👍
Dr. Teeth from electric mayhem reads Burroughs ..
This is gold
Somehow I can hear Burroughs himself singing "Aurora Borealis shinin' down on Dallas / Can you picture that?"
Mark did an excellent job narrating this. That southern twang fits the raunchy, low brow expiremental style of the writing perfectly imo. This book is quite funny btw. Not sure why no one ever mentions that aspect of it.
He made a amazing job. Best audiobook I ever heard.
about Burroughs, there is a new short documentary absolutely fascinating, full of cool little anecdotes :
ruclips.net/video/FEXtcxt61Cs/видео.htmlsi=6ABMkQyQpg9229CS
I just did.
It's probably the funniest book I've read. Up there with Twain and Steve Martin.
An exquisite rendition, my dear . .
Rub 0ut the Word Virus
I WAS NOT READY😂😂😂
I thought of Pynchon as revolutionary until I read this book. Clearly a huge influence on Pynchon.
Introduction
Disposition: A Testimony Concerning A Sickness.
7:37:05
Post Script
Wouldn't you. 7:35:23
Afterthought on
A deposition. 7:42:15
The best
Who narrated this this is crazy good!
Can you please upload Scroty McBoogerballs?
Appendix
Letter From A Master Addict
To Dangerous Drugs. 7:43:40
Page 244 7:55:00
Editor's Note. 8:21:15
Quote Nelson Muntz-I can think of two things wrong with this title.
Out takes 9:08:50
Burroughs' guide to drugs- the book!
I just wish I read it BEFORE I was kicking cold turkey and decided to take C,DPH, and peyote.
4:09:26 The Talking Hole
2:19:59 Hassan’s Rumpus Room
9: 30 ish.....
Benway 37:00
I thought this would make the movie make more sense but its made it even worse 😂
There are lots of video essays on here that make the movie very easy to understand. The movie is easy compared to the book, actually.
I really think the movie needs to be considered a separate entity with elements taken from the book. But if people think the film is some sort of treatise they will be disappointed.
The movie is enjoyable in it's own right though
My rule of thumb for this book is "control and identity". Look out for themes of control over an individual or shifting identities and it'll open up a lot imo.
@@SergeantPancake That is a very useful insight into WSB. I would add an additional word lending a dimension of more "Cosmic" expansion. "Transcendent control." "Transcendent identity." The family fortune did come from inventing a mechanical machine to add things.
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Heroin is a helluva drug!😂
Cocaine too. Themes are homosexuality and drugs. But ultimately, escaping all control.
Wic
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