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  <title><![CDATA[La machine molle]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[The one book by Burroughs that separates the fans from the curious.  The curious usually think 'no, I am not going there.'  Relentless sexual assault mixed with very experimental writing makes this book... Charming!  I love Burroughs' voice.  I also think he's one of the great satire writers of all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8116096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three stars because I admired what Burroughs was trying to do with his cut-up technique, but ultimately I found the book unreadable. I think the cut-up technique could work on a story level, but on a sentence level it renders nonsense. However, reading the book made me search out more information ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52090751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one of my favorite few books ever.  One of a very few texts that made me feel like jumping out of my skin on first read, others being Anti-Oedipus and (when I was younger) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which unfortunately seems like a cynical cash-in attempt to me now.<br/>Burroughs, on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35998960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24445489">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The evil wordsmith that makes Burroughs what he is, it's like escaping into a shell of extroverted lunacy.  Burroughs has always clawed at me (especially since he's one of my most favoured and influential authors) but for some reason I always seem to skim past his books whenever I find myself at a b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24445489">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46105664">
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of cut up writings going on here, serious prose experimentation combined with embarrassing outdated racist Chinese laundry cliches (&quot;Clom Fliday&quot;...not funny), add some disturbing imagery of naked boys hanging themselves and ejaculating on every five pages, and you've got a hip and u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46105664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45759322">
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    <body><![CDATA[it's not good for your mental health to start burroughs with that book.i tell you cuz that's what i did! i had these dreams with the strange forms he describes and i was geting horny reading the sex scenes.oh my!]]></body>
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    <review id="41935764">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intoxicating. I could not figure out why I liked this book so much. This was my first of Burroughs' books and now I'm hooked. <br/><br/>Non-linear and cut-up, what more could you ask for? Soft Machine is part of a larger story cut from &quot;The Word Horde&quot; along with others from around the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41935764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50473660">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kye Alfred Hillig]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Burroughs is a total fucking lunatic, in the most wonderful way. He, like Bukowski, is such a great writer that he can talk about the same topics over and over and still you want more. Williams topics being of course; shooting up, gay sex, hangings, and the Mayan culture. His writing is incredibly p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50473660">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68623281">
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    <body><![CDATA[Everything that I've read of the book &amp; about the book states that this should not be the first Burroughs read, and I can understand why.  I liked the flow of the writing as well as the language, but the cut up sentence structure &amp; jumping of points made it exceptionally difficult to follow.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the 1st William S. Burroughs novel I read.  The obssessive reiterations of hanging boys ejaculating was disturbing &amp; sickening to me but the overall shockingness of the bk had a profound effect on me.  I got the novel b/c its title was the same name as one of my favorite music groups.  I ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16985608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48280415">
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    <body><![CDATA[Read while with my mom at the bookstore.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was recommended by Rodney- I gave it a shot, but I didn't understand it at all...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Part of WSB's &quot;trilogy&quot; of cut-up novels, constructed from his notes for <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7437.Naked_Lunch_The_Restored_Text" title="Naked Lunch  The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs">Naked Lunch</a>.  By its end, definitely shows the limitations (and they abundant) of the cut-up method.  Burroughs was much more sparing in his usage of non-linear and non-objective theoreticals in his later works, all t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10375346">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Burroughs is a strange cat, and his style of composing his novels is interesting as it makes some wonderful imagery.<br/><br/>Unforunately the Soft machine has too much explict homoerotic actions described in all their graphic-ness.  <br/><br/>That and when you piece the thing together it isn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8200720">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My bell curve of Burroughs ends here.  I'm always tempted to go read his later novels, but this just become so unintelligible that was just reading words and turning pages.  I got literally nothing out of it, with the one very notable exception of the phrase, &quot;anal mucous,&quot; which was used ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10000931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For some reason, I remember this book being harder to read than <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7437.Naked_Lunch_The_Restored_Text" title="Naked Lunch  The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs">Naked Lunch</a> - which I never understood until I watched the movie on acid - so I actually could still not really know what it's about.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8669400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another experience of the Burroughs cut-up period, The Soft Machine is a sort of homoerotic travelogue, minus descriptions of the places, other than various, um, interiors.  Still, I found this book to be an easy read, and many of the random word couplings outclassed the other kind.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty fucked up. Burroughs chop-up method can be confusing, so it took me a few reads. But seriously, want to try some crazy drugs and see crab people with me?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once you give up trying to fight the book and beat your head trying to decipher the non-linear portions, the book simply flows as a supreme aesthetic experience.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just can not get into Burroughs. I interesting man, but his style of writing is something that I can not read well, maybe over time that will change.]]></body>
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