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    <body><![CDATA[ &quot;Mi primera lectura de este libro fue a los 16 años, y de vez en vez se ha repetido. La penúltima s...more Mi primera lectura de este libro fue a los 16 años, y de vez en vez se ha repetido. La penúltima sucedió antes del año 2000 y ahora he vuelto a releerlo.<br/><br/>Siempre he consi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20748259">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautiful book.  Burroughs is much calmer here than in his famed Nova trilogy which actually makes his satire even sharper as he himself seems to be coming from a more stable position in his own life.  Now he's more comfortable to transition into more straight forward digressions on mortal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24466287">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A &quot;spiritual&quot; classic.  A perfect ending to the trilogy.  Was moved.  Was horrified.  Laughed my ass off.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Great American/ Egyptian Western? Put it on your shelf next to McCarthy's Blood Meridian. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you enjoy books with purpose, don't waste your time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My most cherished Burroughs so far. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The last of, &amp; my least favorite of the Western Trilogy (does anybody other than me call it that?  I think so..  but it's been a long time since I've thought about it one way or t'other).  I just remember this one as a bit feeble, running out of ideas, reiterating (kindof like these weak capsule rev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17151758">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant novel, doesn't quite resonate with me the same way that Place of Dead Roads did, but a great collection of utterances from the mad genius on his quest for immortality, a phenomena he has conceivably achieved. <br/>With his later works, the more you read them, the better they get.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The perfect book: as wise as it is wise assy, downright hilarious.  WSB's timing got so much better as he got older; this is certainly his best book and a viable handbook to the after life.  Methinks it the very best book I've ever read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Yup. Burroughs in his later period was just electric. And this is no exception. I love it. It's crazy and out there. I felt like I was on acid.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like the old William Burroughs a lot before he got too obsessed with cats.  This book is absolutely wonderful, sad, weird.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally read it at that moment one outgrows Burroughs for a decade or so.  Recommended immediately upon graduating high school.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Burroughs's eagerly awaited final novel in the trilogy begun with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads is a profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on mortality, loneliness, nuclear peril, and the inextinguishable hope for life after death.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think of this book and its accompanying works as discussing the passing of a generation, to some extent.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my favorites, ever. read it twice so far.]]></body>
    
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