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Queer

William S. Burroughs

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.59 | 11427 Users | 419 Reviews

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Original Title:	Queer
ISBN:	0330300164 (ISBN13: 9780330300162)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Mexico City (México City)(Mexico)

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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.





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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!

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Title	:	Queer
Author	:	William S. Burroughs
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	December 17th 1998 by Penguin Books (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Classics

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Ratings: 3.59 From 11427 Users | 419 Reviews

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This is pulp fiction at its finest, and the perfect companion to Burroughs better known "Junky." I have always loved the introduction to the 1985 re-issue: "When I lived in Mexico City at the end of the 1940's, it was a city of one million people, with clear sparkling air and the sky that special shade of blue that goes so well with circling vultures, blood and sand -- the raw menacing pitiless Mexican blue." If you are turned off by his post-Naked Lunch writing style, one might consider this as

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

My love affair with Burroughs started at a young age due (mostly) to this book.This is one of my all time favourite books and has lost nothing with time.I like to think of this as one of the greatest beat era love stories that isn't a love story.

Certain 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

A conservative reader might ask his Goodreads friends , Is William Burroughs gay? as if Burrough knows how it feels like being queer, an offensive slang for homosexual. If he is, it is neither here nor there because he is able to depict the reality of the homosexual world , categorically, the desire to establish an intimate relationship with a straight guy. So if you are gay, you might be able to empathize the situation of the protagonist. But if you are a straight guy, you might end up

I really enjoyed this book. "Queer" is interesting to me as you can see Burroughs' evolution as a writer and the novel also has a foreboding quality that many attribute to Burroughs' accidental murder of his common law wife. The actual plot of the book is pretty basic, it involves William Lee's infatuation with a young man in Mexico. The novel is unflinching in it's portrayal of blind lust; Burroughs' character makes a fool of himself on many occasions, but the novel shouldn't just be seen as

"An oil lamp lit a woman's body. Lee could feel desire for the woman through the other's body. 'I'm not queer' He thought. 'I'm disembodied.'"One of my personal favorite LGBTQ novels. A great exploration of Queer identity and hidden desires. Burroughs' prose is lyrical and simple.