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    <body><![CDATA[More homo-mysticism and rod rubbing from W S Burroughs, probably the greatest writer in the &quot;action&quot; genre.   Faster in some parts than others, like most things written by W.S.B. it is both a great tale unto itself and development upon <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Cities of the Red Night" title=" Cities of the Red Night"> Cities of the Red Night</a>.  <br/><br/>As usual Burrou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11635946">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[On the cover Native American males + one 'white' guy (whatever the fuck that is) - all looking pretty illuminated from my seat.  It reminds me of an excerpt from &quot;Naked Scientology&quot;, one of the Burroughs bks I haven't listed here b/c I'm not sure I've read it entirely.  In this excerpt, Bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17151356">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I will potentially move this up to a higher rating at some future point, but right now I'm pissed off at how annoying I found the last 100 pages (I just wanted it to be <em>over</em>).  I read the first half of this when I was like 13 after getting it from the library and it has been stuck in my subconscious...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47820626">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i started reading war and peace but got restless so i came back to this...an old favorite. really enjoying it once again. <br/><br/>*****************<br/>I've read all of Burroghs' work, but this is my all-time fave - I don't think he ever matched his ability to create a surrealist (collage) stru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4943979">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first Burrough's book I read, and I was hooked almost immediately. A bizarre mixture of mythology, the surreal, the paranoid, and the bizarre, and a unique sense of prose, Burrough's is like no other writer. This is a  good start for those exploring Burroughs, as it's a lot more linear ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1271099">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredible shit; by far the best Burroughs I've fucked with so far. The underlying theme is that mankind will never learn to cooperate until we develop a unified global space program so that we can all get the fuck off this planet. But it's about so much more...really this is a commentary and chroni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/432457">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I'm a big Burroughs fan. This book is post cut-up...combining the myths of the Old West<br/>with ancient Egyptian lore. Very beautiful passages of nostalgic longing and splintered haunted imagery. Very readable for people who have trouble with Burrough's non-linear approach. American writing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11598796">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My copy of this is now filled with pink highlighter.  For instance, the smell of modern evil as rotting oranges, &quot;It is raining, Anita Huffington&quot;, and a two page rant/theory that covers Hassan ibn Sabbah's project through the alien conspiracy to deprive us of immortality.<br/><br/>i'll ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1007186">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably the best of Burroughs' &quot;western trilogy&quot;, his meditation on death and the future of humanity filtered through the outrageous sex and cartoon violence of Kim Carsons and his western gang, the Wild Fruits.  Lots of fun.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has had an unfortunate effect on my wee psyche -- it will take decades before I can be led back out of the psychedelic corridors this sumbitch took me down in the form of a small white cat.<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm, finally really reading this book now.  It is an amazing metaphysical transcendental romp.  If you're into westerns, deviants and outlaws; and of course Burroughs style, I do recommend.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Psychick Inertia cannot be stopped. As he later stated in My Education: A Book of Dreams, &quot;Angeblich, sterbe Ich&quot;. Translated, &quot;Allegedly, I'm dying&quot;.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Part 2 of the last trilogy, Place of Dead Roads deals with Kit Carson and Burrough's whole wild west fantasy, bare-assed cowboys in chaps. Hilarious.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first attempt at Burroughs did not go well...  I found this extremely hard going and ultimately pointless, I'm afraid]]></body>
    
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