Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
read: 2011
Time 100 Novels, Guardian 1000 Novels
Naked Lunch doesn't make any sense, but there's no pretext of it making sense at any point. There are sort of some characters but not really any plot to speak of. I'd probably liken it more to something like T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" than any novel I've read; the book is full of impressionistic scenes of decay, addiction, perversion, and paranoia. It's an interesting read. I'd also recommend the movie version, which is a David Cronenberg film and appropriately David-Cronenbergy (including typewriters that turn into metallic beetle-like creatures). It's just coherent enough that it's a movie while keeping the spirit of the novel.
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