Odd books

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Reverend Blair]

I just stumbled across a copy of Hunter S. Thompson's "Screwjack" down at the used bookstore. I was there to pick up a copy of Lono, but it had blood or gravy or something all over the pages, so I didn't want it. The girl behind the counter said, "We got this little book of his too." She held up a pristine copy of Screwjack. It's a weird little book...59 pages of Thompson actually writing instead of musing about inventing new ways to avoid writing.

I'm hanging onto this copy. I loaned the last one out to a fellow fan before I realized that all Hunter Thomspon readers are twisted dope fiends incapable of simply reading a book and then returning it. Bastards.

[Bella Fortuna]

I have a copy of that. (not an original!)

[Mr Calavera]

At a book fair I picked up a book called Manners and Rules of Good Society or Solecisms to be Avoided by A Member of the Aristocracy. The edition I found was printed in 1928, but it says it is the 47th edition.

[JimC]

At a book fair I picked up a book called Manners and Rules of Good Society or Solecisms to be Avoided by A Member of the Aristocracy. The edition I found was printed in 1928, but it says it is the 47th edition.

I trust you will follow its every instruction, old boy...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Does The Naked Lunch seem odd to anyone?

[Reverend Blair]

Does The Naked Lunch seem odd to anyone?

Not as odd as William S. Burroughs singing a Jim Morrison song.


"Seem's a god damned odd thing to happen to me."

But yeah, Naked Lunch and everything else Burroughs wrote qualify as odd.

[hadespussercats]

Cruddy, by Linda Barry

There are odd illustrations, and the story is bleak, but engaging-- almost humorous were it not so dark and strange.

I recommend it.

[hadespussercats]

Does The Naked Lunch seem odd to anyone?

I've only seen the movie version of this, with Peter Weller and the cockroach typewriter. It was odd, definitely gruesome (esp. since I'm not fond of bugs), but interesting-- particularly since a lot of the interchanges with Joan were actually drawn from life.

Should I read the book?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Does The Naked Lunch seem odd to anyone?

I've only seen the movie version of this, with Peter Weller and the cockroach typewriter. It was odd, definitely gruesome (esp. since I'm not fond of bugs), but interesting-- particularly since a lot of the interchanges with Joan were actually drawn from life.

Should I read the book?

If you're a fan of drug-induced insanity, it's a winner. I was threatened with administrative action for reading it on base once.

[hadespussercats]

Does The Naked Lunch seem odd to anyone?

I've only seen the movie version of this, with Peter Weller and the cockroach typewriter. It was odd, definitely gruesome (esp. since I'm not fond of bugs), but interesting-- particularly since a lot of the interchanges with Joan were actually drawn from life.

Should I read the book?

If you're a fan of drug-induced insanity, it's a winner. I was threatened with administrative action for reading it on base once.

Are you kidding? It's written by a druggie, but it's not like the pages are laced with pcp or anything. Ridiculous!

[sifaka]

Anything by Murakami, my particular favourite: Dance, Dance, Dance

[Reverend Blair]

I've only seen the movie version of this, with Peter Weller and the cockroach typewriter. It was odd, definitely gruesome (esp. since I'm not fond of bugs), but interesting-- particularly since a lot of the interchanges with Joan were actually drawn from life.

Should I read the book?

Definitely. Everybody should read some Burroughs. His perspective is a little odd, but once you get past the weirdness, there's some pretty decent social commentary there that doesn't come through very well in the movie. I think Gawdzilla's superiors were more worried about that than him suddenly taking up heroin as a hobby.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Does The Naked Lunch seem odd to anyone?

I've only seen the movie version of this, with Peter Weller and the cockroach typewriter. It was odd, definitely gruesome (esp. since I'm not fond of bugs), but interesting-- particularly since a lot of the interchanges with Joan were actually drawn from life.

Should I read the book?

If you're a fan of drug-induced insanity, it's a winner. I was threatened with administrative action for reading it on base once.

Are you kidding? It's written by a druggie, but it's not like the pages are laced with pcp or anything. Ridiculous!

So you don't think he was having hallucinations?

[hadespussercats]

Does The Naked Lunch seem odd to anyone?

I've only seen the movie version of this, with Peter Weller and the cockroach typewriter. It was odd, definitely gruesome (esp. since I'm not fond of bugs), but interesting-- particularly since a lot of the interchanges with Joan were actually drawn from life.

Should I read the book?

If you're a fan of drug-induced insanity, it's a winner. I was threatened with administrative action for reading it on base once.

Are you kidding? It's written by a druggie, but it's not like the pages are laced with pcp or anything. Ridiculous!

So you don't think he was having hallucinations?

Oh, I'm sure HE was-- I just wasn't so sure YOU were.

But the part where he and Joan do their William Tell routine-- that actually happened, somewhere in Mexico, which is probably why he never served any jail time for it.

Some day, when I'm up for it, I'll give reading the actual book a try.