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Naked Lunch is funny and all, but tbh, Burroughs is ****ing unreadable


Experimenting with the form is interesting, but Burroughs does it in such a way that I can't relate to most of the time.
I mean, sure, Naked Lunch is great as a novel you'll start reading out loud to all your acid-out buddies, but it's not a good book.

All of Burroughs' oeuvre seems to me like a toned down Gombrowicz's novel.

He's amazing, and he channels the feeling of being out of your mind, but he never accomplishes being relatable at the same time. He just does wild ****.

Gombrowicz on the other hand is a writer who makes up stories too absurd to be true, but through his first-person narrator he really makes you feel like you we're the one being unreasonable, not him.

Burroughs makes you feel like he is the unreasonable one, and you are here to have some sense and judge him.

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