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The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead | William S Burroughs
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In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare and open combat with a confused and outmatched army. The Wild Boys shows why Burroughs is a writer unlike any other, able to make captivating the explicit and horrific.
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Daisey
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✅ Another strange book marked off the 1001 list! Thankfully, it was short & fairly easy to follow at double speed. It‘s a disjointed mishmash of stories with way too much graphic M/M sex for me. Some scenes were interesting in how they were repetitively told with slight variations, but I didn‘t get the point. It wasn‘t as difficult of a read as de Sade‘s Justine, but I‘m giving it the same kind of rating.

#1001books #audiobook #DeweysReadathon

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Ladygodiva7
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Ideal book for October and it‘s #1001

Update: horrible book lol, do not recommend 😅

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AshleyHoss820
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Mehso-so

David Bowie apparently drew inspiration from The Wild Boys for his character Ziggy Stardust & that‘s about the only thing that makes sense to me after that. I‘ve never been good with stream-of-consciousness. There were parts that I thought were really funny, but mostly I was confused. I struggled through Naked Lunch too. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Mr. Burroughs, we seem to be at loggerheads. I ordered Junky so that we may be done w/ each other. 152/1,001 #1001Books

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KellyHunsakerReads
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I could not possibly hate a book more. #1001books

BookwormM Have you read The Story of the Eye 🤣🤣 6y
KellyHunsakerReads No. Is it just as bad? 6y
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Leftcoastzen
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead | William S Burroughs
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#uncannyoctober #hatsandotherheadgear A couple of iconoclasts that rock their hats! It strikes me as funny that one of the most outrageous of writers mostly dressed like he was going to a office job interview. Part of the irony that is Burroughs.Tom Waits can wear whatever the hell he wants.Hats seem to suit him just fine.