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| Original Title: | Queer |
| ISBN: | 0330300164 (ISBN13: 9780330300162) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Mexico City (México City)(Mexico) |
William S. Burroughs
Paperback | Pages: 160 pages Rating: 3.59 | 11427 Users | 419 Reviews
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I have a passionate hatred for William Burroughs. I think even his fans have to concede that he's a degenerate piece of shit. I admit my prior experience with him consists of 5 pages of Naked Lunch and a couple biographies of various sorts, none of which fail to mention the pedophilia and him murdering his wife (I'm from Detroit, don't think for a second I buy his bullshit story), not that I'd hold that against him when rating this book. I went into this book expecting it to be about heroin abuse and gay sex, you know some fun light reading, instead it turns about to be a sober, heartbreaking tale of profound universal human loneliness: "In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it, you cannot complain." The fact that this book is great somehow only makes me hate him more. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Alright Burroughs, I don't like you and you don't like me, but I found this for .50 cents today so I'm giving you one more shot to redeem yourself . . . Don't Fuck This Up!
List Out Of Books Queer
| Title | : | Queer |
| Author | : | William S. Burroughs |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 160 pages |
| Published | : | December 17th 1998 by Penguin Books (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Classics |
Rating Out Of Books Queer
Ratings: 3.59 From 11427 Users | 419 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books Queer
I have a passionate hatred for William Burroughs. I think even his fans have to concede that he's a degenerate piece of shit. I admit my prior experience with him consists of 5 pages of Naked Lunch and a couple biographies of various sorts, none of which fail to mention the pedophilia and him murdering his wife (I'm from Detroit, don't think for a second I buy his bullshit story), not that I'd hold that against him when rating this book. I went into this book expecting it to be about heroinCertain cult writing earns this status because the prose is so transparent and simple it instantly appeals to teenage males done with Easton Ellis and Kerouac who want to up their shock quotient before attempting to read Gravitys Rainbow for the first and last time. Queer fits the bill except, by todays standards, the book is a little prude in tight Speedos with its danglies between its thighs asking us to love it if wed only give it a chance. Will Lee is a homosexual-in-training in pursuit of
The tone was relaxed yet captivating and I can see myself rereading it to see what I get from it a second time. In fact, some passages were so lovely that I reread them several times before continuing.
Queer is an unreciprocated love story, in which the protagonist Lee craves love and attention from a young American by the name of Eugene Allerton. Set in the American ex-pat scene of hedonistic, lawless 1940s Mexico, the first half of the story centres around a number of bars and gay joints where Lee spends his days, drinking, drug-taking and going through set routines, whereby he attempts to regale his audience with intellectualness and bizarre humour. Later in the book Lee persuades Allerton
This book has been sitting on my library shelves for a couple of years untouched. Since it was William Burroughs, and looked like a fairly quick read, I decided to pick it up. Burroughs is one of the seminal American authors of the underground gay experience, right? I thought it would be like reading Alan Hollinghurst on cocaine - something I was looking forward to.But I was highly disappointed. The novel's plot revolves around gay two heroin addicts, William Lee and Eugene Allerton. Lee's
It's more like a 3 and a half but it feels wrong to bump this book down to 3. It's a fascinating read. Not because a lot happens, but because it's impossible to read it without acknowledging that Lee is Burroughs himself. The poor guy is gay and not 100% on terms with it, even though he sleeps with men, and he has a serious drug addiction, that, a third of the way through the book, vanishes as he goes through withdrawal. In some ways it's not a light read. In other ways it is. This books has Lee
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