If you're having trouble with Naked Lunch.. You might want to try reading Interzone and queer They sort of mark the transition that William Burroughs made as a writer You'll probably get a lot more out of Naked Lunch if you decide to do so I've never read the trilogy proceeding Naked Lunch, so I couldn't say anything about that; but I'd be interested in hearing about it from someone. You also might be interested in checking out David Cronenburg's adaptation to the "book" and burroughs writing the book: Naked Lunch. It's a film, of course; it's pretty interesting to say the least.
I flicked through this book in a bookshop as a prelude to buying it.The Homosexual sex descriptions put me off,so I bought Jack Kerouac's: 'On The Road' instead.
The way burroughs wrote the naked lunch was as initially a series of routines he would act out with his friends for kicks and which became a 'word hoard' from which he took the sections that make the book.
I did not know that...interesta ummmmm...if I get another steaming load of negativity from this AGAIN, I'll stop asking, but...do you or anyone else know the order to read The Soft Machine, the Ticket that Exploded, and Nova Express? I've been befuddled by their backcovers...
