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Inder
Apr 19, 2008 rated it did not like it
Shelves: 1001-books, 20th-century, fiction
Ugh. I'm sure this is very brilliant and all, but it's extremely unpleasant to read. Physically repulsive, it's enough to scare anyone away from heroin, and yet, in some ways, it glorifies the experience in a self-indulgent way. Mind you, the book has no plot, and is just one drug-induced hallucination after another. It gets pretty boring after a while. Even extreme disgust gets old after about 50 pages. You're so numb after a few pages that Burrough's attempts to get nastier and nastier and sho ...more
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Becca Becca
Jan 02, 2008 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, read-in-college
It's best to read this book while on drugs in college. Otherwise, it may be a painful experience.

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