Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs: Misery in Complexity 5🌟

I got this book from an extreme horror book recommendation site and not only is it pure disturbing (literally just Hogg 2.0) it is alsooooo 🤙 stupid confusing.. which is almost the point that is trying to get across by the author.


So actually the entire point of this book is to be confusing..(mirroring the effects of heroin to the author by writing in a non traditional way, "technically if you think about it it's just shit writing" but like I'm sooo meta and a good 4th wall breaker so I'll just forget the rules of grammar and syntax). Which i almost didn't know because i was too busy looking for a plot that is absolutely non-existent. Every single chapter is a totally different story with new characters, only featuring a few (mainly only one) character/s that are also present in the previous chapters. Which if you put it together, is a certified absolute mess 🤦‍♂️. This book is an embodiment of a stoner, written like how a stoner's life would be like). Don't do drugs kids or you might end up writing an almost biographical book that details your own life being a drug addict (yes the author has drug dependency, that's the inspiration why he wrote this in the first place).


All of this to create a bittersweet (mostly bitter) compilation of vignettes rather than a full blown story, 


This is basically a trauma dump book in disguise... But in 1959 (but still go girl with that battle to morphine and heroin addiction 💅💅) He has many different perspectives on the sex and drug addiction that he faces in his everyday life and creates this collection of mini stories. Would be five stars because it's worth it, but since there's no plot, drop it down.




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