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robfarren's review
5.0
Way more than any of his fiction, this had a huge impact on my thinking as a young man. Some standouts are the ones about Hemingway and Fitzgerald, The Fall of Art, Creative Reading, Immortality, and the one about reviewing the reviewers. You may not agree with everything in here, but it'll get you thinking.
whackboy's review
4.0
a bit of repetition time to time. probably best to read an essay here an essay there, rather than cover to cover. a nice taste of burroughs's nonfiction.
cetian's review
4.0
This is a masterpiece. So different from what Huxley did. Burroughs was like a transhuman, ahed of his time. He constructed himself, he altered what he was, in the way Terence McKenna talks about and consciousness hackers aim for. And when he wrote essays, they were absolutely brilliant and original. This is enticing, unexpected, just a great read.
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