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Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy #2)
In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’s grand cut-up trilogy, which began with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express, reaches its climax as Inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet.
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Published
December 1st 2007
by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
(first published 1962)
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Jun 11, 2011
La Stamberga dei Lettori
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Il biglietto che esplose, pannello centrale della Trilogia Nova, è probabilmente il più ostico dei libri di Burroughs, o almeno, il più difficile che io abbia finora incontrato.
Come nei romanzi precedenti, anche in questo i due pilastri sono inevitabilmente il corpo ed il linguaggio. Destrutturati e riassemblati una dieci e mille volte. Quel corpo che veniva visto come una macchina morbida, intossicata dall'Io-nevrosi e dal virus della droga, adesso viene letto come una prigione. L'uomo è prigi...more
Come nei romanzi precedenti, anche in questo i due pilastri sono inevitabilmente il corpo ed il linguaggio. Destrutturati e riassemblati una dieci e mille volte. Quel corpo che veniva visto come una macchina morbida, intossicata dall'Io-nevrosi e dal virus della droga, adesso viene letto come una prigione. L'uomo è prigi...more
But if you're reading this then you probably expect a challenge anyway. What it means. Smell of rancid tide flat--police drama strangely flickers in and out, much channels are playing. picture. The unnerving documentary on parasitic Machine, however this strangely analogous to Doctor. Imagine that without proper documentation. Channel-change static bursts to foil religious mind-control Now imagine what, and poisonous insects of the amazon--a sci-fi cable box. Doctor Benway less noticeably playin...more
Dec 29, 2009
Ed Smiley
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Deliberately disjointed, hallucinatory, wacky, disturbing and inventive. Burroughs employs a collage technique where different narratives are cut up and thrown together like a salad. I originally read it in the English edition, which differs from the American. Read long time ago.
This is definitely my favorite of the works of this talented madman. It may be his oddest. I was gratified to see this posting on RealityStudio (http://realitystudio.org/bibliography...)
Perhaps one of Burroughs’ least a...more
This is definitely my favorite of the works of this talented madman. It may be his oddest. I was gratified to see this posting on RealityStudio (http://realitystudio.org/bibliography...)
Perhaps one of Burroughs’ least a...more
If you don't like the idea of reading paragraph after paragraph about catapulting streams of jism, then maybe this book is not for you. But the Ticket That Exploded is about so much more than torrential ejaculations... it's about melting your head right down to your shoulders. There is a kind of zen state that becomes necessary to read Burroughs sometimes, you have to really let the sickness flood over you and understand that it is not the author that is sick, but instead you, you with your fear...more
Apr 01, 2013
Thomas
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To begin with I felt guilty for hardly absorbing any of the book as the grammar made it hard to read. When I researched it a little and realised the writing style was purposely nonsensical I felt a bit better, but looked forward to the point where it started to make sense. It didn’t. As the text doesn’t make coherent sense for more than about a page at a time, it feels like gibberish and is very, very difficult to concentrate on. Like with some Jack Kerouac and JG Ballard, I took it as a mission...more
May 29, 2011
Tancredi
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L'"Altra Metà" è la parola. L'"Altra Metà" è un organismo. La parola è un organismo.
Il biglietto che esplose, pannello centrale della Trilogia Nova, è probabilmente il più ostico dei libri di Burroughs, o almeno, il più difficile che io abbia finora incontrato.
Come nei romanzi precedenti, anche in questo i due pilastri sono inevitabilmente il corpo ed il linguaggio. Destrutturati e riassemblati una dieci e mille volte. Quel corpo che veniva visto come una macchina morbida, intossicata dall'Io-ne...more
Il biglietto che esplose, pannello centrale della Trilogia Nova, è probabilmente il più ostico dei libri di Burroughs, o almeno, il più difficile che io abbia finora incontrato.
Come nei romanzi precedenti, anche in questo i due pilastri sono inevitabilmente il corpo ed il linguaggio. Destrutturati e riassemblati una dieci e mille volte. Quel corpo che veniva visto come una macchina morbida, intossicata dall'Io-ne...more
Aug 28, 2009
tENTATIVELY, cONVENIENCE
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Burroughs' 2nd cut-up novel (if I have the chronology right) & the beginining of what's, for me, his strongest period. After writing my quickie 'review' of "Naked Lunch" in wch I mentioned Balch's "Towers Open Fire", I moved onto this one & 'randomly' opened to page 110 to read:
""This way - To the Towers" - Ali pointed to an office building that dominated the square - Kiki ran toward the building covered now by tower fire - Hands pulled him into a doorway - On the roof of the building w...more
""This way - To the Towers" - Ali pointed to an office building that dominated the square - Kiki ran toward the building covered now by tower fire - Hands pulled him into a doorway - On the roof of the building w...more
I read this right after reading Bukowski, so I was a little apprehensive. I really didn´t want another masturbatory ode to losers and the women they convice to take care of them.
I really liked this book. It was so stream-of-conciousness that after awhile it became a game to figure out any kind of story line underneath it all. (There is) It was actually quite disorienting: a straighforward paragraph, a paragragh or two disecting the first paragraphy, five or six paragraghs dissecting the previous...more
I really liked this book. It was so stream-of-conciousness that after awhile it became a game to figure out any kind of story line underneath it all. (There is) It was actually quite disorienting: a straighforward paragraph, a paragragh or two disecting the first paragraphy, five or six paragraghs dissecting the previous...more
My ex John gave me a first-edition copy of this for my birthday with the caveat that if I was ever broke I could probably get good money for it. It's one long cut-up with sections repeating and repeating in endless permutations of young-boy swamp sex and rectal mucous that is moderately unreadable, leaving the first-edition hardcover in good saleable shape.
Dec 31, 2007
Tedopon
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Up until I read McCarthy's The Road, this was King of the Hill for over a decade. The book Uncle Bill wrote right dead center at the transition between the raw cut up style of the Nova trilogy and the later books where he "attained mastery".
Bottom line-it's his best book. Burroughs will always be my favorite writer, there is no one comes close to his sheer artistic power, and no one can hold a candle to his deadpan cynicism that fluctuates between hate and love of all things human.
This is the o...more
Bottom line-it's his best book. Burroughs will always be my favorite writer, there is no one comes close to his sheer artistic power, and no one can hold a candle to his deadpan cynicism that fluctuates between hate and love of all things human.
This is the o...more
Mar 31, 2012
Babak Fakhamzadeh
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So.... it was not easy to read. I had to read it multiple times to really get it - and in the end I'm not sure that I did. Nonetheless, I was fascinated.
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Softly wavering between scattered cut ups and visceral marches through post-taboo imagery, The Ticket That Exploded is collage art, profane satire, and deep subconscious phantasmagoria wrapped into a swirling colony of bite sized insanity. There is absolutely no way to describe what the nova trilogy is to people that read mass-market novels or enjoy light reading. This is for closing ones eyes and reading, so to speak, removing one's self from pace and falling through the delusions of junk sick...more
William S. Burroughs is alive and well and seems to be currently writing for the BBC.
I was amazed when I caught a NOVA episode about the cuttlefish's ability to dazzle prey by triggering its skin cells to rapidly change color like a Pink Floyd light show, just like the fishboys. No one can come up with disturbing, half-ancestrally remembered creatures like Bill Lee.
I was amazed when I caught a NOVA episode about the cuttlefish's ability to dazzle prey by triggering its skin cells to rapidly change color like a Pink Floyd light show, just like the fishboys. No one can come up with disturbing, half-ancestrally remembered creatures like Bill Lee.
I'm not sure if I actually read this or not, but it's been sitting on my shelf for 20 years....
This is science fiction with track marks. I wish more science fiction could be like this. Creating chaos with tape recorders. Not much needs to be said about Burroughs.
difficult to read with burrough's stream of consciousness writing.
Just amazing--a glimpse inside the manifesto of The Rewrite Department with practical demonstrations throughout. The last 30 pages are mindblowingly good. A bit less sparkling in wit and black humor than The Soft Machine, but still a master class in postmodernity.
I read the book for the chapter "the invisible generation" and, although there were other interesting parts, I found this chapter to be the most interesting. It was well worth the read.
Left over garbage from Naked Lunch, 50% of which is quite good.
more nova shenanigans - love the tape cutting exercises
my personal favorite of the "cut up" trilogy.
for diehard fans of the genre only.
So weird. So addicting.
apparently this is not a great book to read when you've recently moved to los angeles and are spending a lot of time commuting alone on the usually-quite-empty subway. i thought it was wholly disturbing. maybe this means i'm showing my 'staid and normal' hand, but so be it.
also - i'm trying to suss out why a lot of people compare burroughs and mangels to pynchon. i'm not seeing the connection yet, but then again i've only read 'the crying of lot 49'. anyhoo ...
also - i'm trying to suss out why a lot of people compare burroughs and mangels to pynchon. i'm not seeing the connection yet, but then again i've only read 'the crying of lot 49'. anyhoo ...
It started off good, but got old after awhile. Not the best one in the trilogy for sure.
The one William S. Burroughs book that causes the fan base to be afraid, really afraid. Burroughs at his most out there - those who have a fear of experimental writing - stay far away. This is a live bomb ticking slowly and it may explode in your hands! For those who are not afraid, this is really good. Burroughs at his most dry, and distain for the real square's world most intense work.
Presumably, if you're reading this middle book of a bizarre trilogy, you don't require a review beforehand. But you're HERE, so... ?
This is Burroughs, just what you'd expect. The word stew parts of this book can get a little laborious to push through, but all the pieces with even the slightest amount of coherence are knock-you-on-your-ass amazing.
This is Burroughs, just what you'd expect. The word stew parts of this book can get a little laborious to push through, but all the pieces with even the slightest amount of coherence are knock-you-on-your-ass amazing.
I don't see me ever reading a book as annoyingly bad or as challenging as this ever again. I'm still not sure if it was published as a joke to prove that people will read and praise anything. If so, well played.
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William Seward Burroughs Jnr. always looked like the straight man among the Beat Generation, but his writing - violent, satirical, scatological, pornographic - makes the others look tame.
Burroughs was born into middle-class respectability and after studying English at Harvard and medicine in Vienna, trained as a glider pilot with the American military but was discharged as unfit for service in 194...more
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“The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half' is a separate organism attached to your nervous system on an air line of words can now be demonstrated experimentally. One of the most common 'hallucinations' of subject during sense withdrawal is the feeling of another body sprawled through the subject's body at an angle...yes quite an angle it is the 'Other Half' worked quite some years on a symbiotic basis. From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.”
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