false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175630397m/538566.jpg 23940 26 Before his 1959 breakthrough, <i>Naked Lunch</i>, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote <i>Junk</i>, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of <i>Junk</i>'s text and places its contents against a lively historical background. 24861 book 1953 Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition) total:4105|5:1017|4:1685|3:1104|2:254|1:45| 4105 15690 5293 261 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 18:01:24 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 13:42:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1973 Sat Feb 09 16:47:42 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 16:49:44 -0800 2008
This is not the William S. Burroughs of The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Burroughs, William S.) and certainly not the same guy who wrote Naked Lunch: The Restored Text....more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 16:54:56 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 18:38:21 -0700 2007 Naked Lunch on the pay stations at friends' houses. At that time (circa 1996), I was far more interested in authors like Steinbeck and He...more...]]> 0 2 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 28 10:27:03 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 10:35:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1973 Sat Jul 05 06:28:52 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 08:03:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 08:30:03 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 14:25:25 -0800 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Dec 15 12:42:48 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 12:51:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 11:58:27 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 00:04:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 18:01:22 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 13:18:36 -0800 2009 1
At first I was skeptical. This book was titled Junky after all and was being recommended/lent to me by someone who had earlier reassured me that William S. Burroughs was indeed the most amoral of the altogether quite amoral beats. Beyond this, she...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 15:46:46 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 15:53:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 14 20:49:03 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 20:56:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 02:45:08 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 02:57:02 -0800 2009 I know that given half the chance my dear shadow self is just itching to be a Junky with a capital J. I know that I would make the worst kind of Junky and never survive to write a memoir. The darkness of addiction holds a morbid fascination for me just as the ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Mon Mar 23 11:41:57 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 11:49:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 09 07:48:02 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 09:41:53 -0700 2009
What I enjoyed most was the opportunity of being given a view into this world: the cravings, the shady characters, the lingo, the copper jitters, the unendurable jail...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 13:37:42 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 13:37:42 -0700 2009
This book is Burroughs without being Burroughs. It's the decaff to his...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jul 12 20:58:53 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 21:09:01 -0700 2009
Not that the life of many drug users are exciting either, they mainly consis...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 23:02:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 00:56:44 -0700 2009 William S. Burroughs novel I've read, but I was interested after seeing the film version of The Naked Lunch and from being a fan of beat poets and writers in general. This book acts as more of a dictionary definition of the concept that is being a Junky, rather than a deep narrativ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 10 10:33:48 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 22:17:42 -0800 2008 Junky over the weekend. Simple writing... it picked up for me after he left New York and headed south. Being from the New Orleans area i especially liked this passage:

There are people in New Orleans who have never been outside the city limits. The New Orleans accent is exactly...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 25 17:30:52 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 20 14:05:38 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 20:01:52 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 12:00:02 -0700 2008 Naked Lunch years ago, I feared for the worst. I have to say, I never would have imagined it to be as enjoyable as it is. Probably my favorite thing about the book is ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=538566