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Original Title:	The Soft Machine
ISBN:	0802133290 (ISBN13: 9780802133298)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Nova Trilogy #1

The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1) Paperback | Pages: 184 pages

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In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.

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Title	:	The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
Author	:	William S. Burroughs
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 184 pages
Published	:	January 13th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1961)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Literature

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It hit me with a certain amount of force yesterday that I'd read eight books by William S. Burroughs between July and November of 2012 and zero in the entirety of 2013 and 2014. What had happened to the young rebel? Had he calmed? Dare we say he made peace with the world?Well, it was a slow realization, but here's the essence of the problem: William S. Burroughs was not a great writer. An interesting one? Definitely. An influential one? I'll go along with that. A key part of shaping my tastes in

I find the work of William Burroughs fascinating, but Im not sure I always understand it. In fact, his most experimental books, of which this is a prime example, are utterly incomprehensible from a rationalist, linear perspective. Their meaning seeps in to the subconscious and the reader is left with the feeling that they have almost but not quite grasped some profound set of truths fixed in a story that remains enigmatic, disturbing and genuinely strange.The main conceit behind *The Soft

The Soft Machine is like a travelogue concocted by a perverted and drugged space travelerI had this special Green Boy I was making it with who knew the ropes you might say and he told me we have to tune the heat wave out with music So we get all the Indians and all the Green Boys with drums and flutes and copper plates and stayed just out of the heat blast beating the drums and slowly closed in lam had rigged up a catapult to throw limestone boulders and shattered the cubicle so we move in

Maybe it's me, but I don't see "genius" at work here at all. The cut-ups are sometimes fun, sometimes arresting, but the huge quantities of jism and rectal mucous in evidence here swiftly become tiresome when there's little of substance to accompany them. I thought I'd give another of the "prime" Burroughs novels a go after abandoning Naked Lunch, but I wish I hadn't. Junky and Queer are brilliant. This isn't.

It is on my shelf "Sorry I just can't".Because I just can't. Out of my entire life, I rarely start a book and leave it unfinished. No matter how dull / poorly written it is, I want to be able to finish it. This way I can say, I read this and I have this opinion.For the Soft Machine, unfortunately I cannot. I can't finish the book because I simply don't understand it. It is a collection of words, of which I just cannot fathom the meaning.I liked Burrough's Junky and Ginsberg's Howl, and I know

I know, that experiment. They are reminded that it is an alchemist experiment to try to produce gold dung. And it failed. In the end, they're just a hobby Sanya shit. I need to get this book? Misunderstanding. In severe cases of amnesia precedence, the stereotype of the avant-garde, experimental book:Page 5 Start - What's going on here?6th - two hours here?P.9 is - this is the entire five books.P.13 - This style is a way to pass the bullshit, fractures of the mind and the world I see.Page 20 -

I've seen a lot of comments about how this book of experimental fiction is "unreadable", which I did not find to be the case at all. In fact I enjoyed reading it immensely - the repetition of the cut-up material gives it a sort of surreal hypnotic quality. The writing is occasionally straight up brilliant. Some of the sex stuff is a bit too much though - if I never hear the phrase "rectal mucus and carbolic soap" again it will be too soon.I do agree that it is difficult to understand - the plot