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The Soft Machine
The Soft Machine
Author: William S. Burroughs
Book one in Burroughs' surreal, anarchic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'. Hanged soldiers, North African street urchins, addicted narcotics agents, Spanish rent boys, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the mythology of history or the laboratories of science -- Burroughs is truly the Hieronymous Bosch of our time. In this surreal, savage and brilli...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345236043
ISBN-10: 0345236041
Publication Date: 10/12/1973
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I made it all the way through. It was wackier than Naked Lunch. Burroughs is supposed to be brilliant, but, to be honest, a lot of his metaphors go right over my head. Maybe I needed to be on something when I read it.
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Burroughs at his best.