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Nov 10, 2015
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My very first Burroughs! I picked this one up because I saw it was on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list and I recently signed up for a challenge to read 10 of the 1001 books in 10 months. This is my first book of the 10.
Junky was Burrough's first book and was published before the start of the Beat movement. The semi-autobiographical "Junky" details the experiences of Bill Lee an man who developed a morphine and heroine habit. We first meet Lee shortly before his first time using drugs ...more
Junky was Burrough's first book and was published before the start of the Beat movement. The semi-autobiographical "Junky" details the experiences of Bill Lee an man who developed a morphine and heroine habit. We first meet Lee shortly before his first time using drugs ...more

I expected to not like this book by William S Burrough's but I liked it. It was an easy to read book and I was impressed that this author who openly writes about his addiction and his homosexuality was intelligent. He writes this book without defensiveness or anger. He writes with matter-of-fact style. This was his debut novel. He wrote the original in 1953 and was published by Ace. I read the Penguin addition. This book is gives the reader a trained anthropologist observations as he portrays th
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William Burroughs' first book is a description of drug addiction in terse prose, with no attempt at justification or blame.
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Feb 10, 2009
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