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Title: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader by James Grauerholz, Ira Silverberg, William S. Burroughs ISBN: 0-8021-3694-X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Useful introduction to the author's work
Comment: This book was a hard one to review. The writings sampled are inconsistent-but then again, so was Burroughs's output, so in that respect the writings are a true representation of Burroughs's corpus. The chapter introductions by Grauerholz are especially valuable for readers who are removed from Burroughs's original context, and assist in further illuminating Burroughs's writings. The later works (after the "cut-ups") are especially prophetic; it was interesting to read Burroughs's commentaries on Hussein and another Bush in 2003. All in all, a useful and comprehensive introduction to one who is seeking to get acquainted with the wide range of work that came from the pen of Burroughs.
Rating: 5
Summary: great collection
Comment: A very exspansive and definitive collection for the Burroughs enthusist. This does not have it all, but it does offer a generous portion of this man's work. Including the forementioned, in the other reviews, colaboration with Jack Kerouac. Grauerholz really put togther this labor of love. I'd recomend it for first timers as well as old time collectors. Inbetween each chapter biographical information pertinent to that era is included. Also features a cd spoken word sampler, that pulls material from the Giornio boxed set. I'd also recomend that hefty delight.
Rating: 3
Summary: The one Burroughs book to buy
Comment: The one book by William S. Burroughs you should buy. The unique genius that William truly was-yes, indulgent, odd and unsettling at 80, but how great it would have been to have known him young and probably pretty in 1950-is best understood with the direction of J. Grauerholz, although a bourgeois beatnik, for sure, who did love him and is the world expert on him. Ira Silverberg is a true young publishing genius, the new Ferlinghetti, and most responsible for the book. My earlier review I withdraw. Although true, it did not reflect the genius and truth of William-and Jack, Allen, Anne, Philip, Lawrence, Gregory, Gary, even Neal and Huncke, et al. View their literature with a full and clear understanding of their weaknesses and that we, the readers, are almost certain to have less ability to 'drive-on' pass the drugs, sex, parties, confusion-to produce as they could or can. At least be warned. A lot of souls have been lost on the beat road.
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Title: The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs ISBN: 0802151507 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Portable Jack Kerouac (The Viking Portable Library) by Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters ISBN: 0140178198 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk" by William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris ISBN: 0142003166 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interview of Wiliam S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (Double Agents) by William S. Burroughs, Sylvère Lotringer, Sylvere Lotringer ISBN: 1584350105 Publisher: Semiotext(e) Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 0872860043 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: December, 1971 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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