The Soft Machine: The Restored Text Cut-up Trilogy Paperback William S. Burroughs

from JWarren42

I won't lie--I don't always understand Burroughs. However, I don't think understanding is always the point with his work. In fact, in this novel I think the entire point is to break and rebreak the reader's expectation of narrative again and again as an extension of the battle cry of the characte...

from hovercraftofeels

At first glance, this book appears to just be about drug addicts having all sorts of crazy sex. There's some death, more sex, drugs, sex with boys, and more death. After digging a bit deeper, however, one starts to notice the parallels between Burroughs' novel and H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, s...

from ironicqueery

As much as I hate to say a book was completely horrible, this book was quite wretched. According to Wikipedia, Burroughs apparently uses some cut-up and fold-in technique, but really, it just seems to result in something completely unreadable that makes no sense, rather than innovative and enligh...

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Morally and ethically disgusting and reprehensible, but an interesting text.

from NaggedMan

Not an easy read, but worth persevering if you can take it!