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Originally Posted by Glice
Note Bene: If suchfriends... has said anything pleasant about Burroughs he's excused because that motherfucker is a better read motherfucker than all of y'all illiterate motherfuckers.
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compliment accepted. By the way, I have never more than glanced over Burroughs works aside from some poemish short stories I found on my pop's bookshelf a decade ago. I really just like him as
personality and I adore his delivery on the Priest They Called Him, but his writing is a bit drab, cliche even.
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Originally Posted by jonathan
I couldn't finish the Castle; book drove me nuts. Kafka's short stories/novellas are fantastic though.
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agreed, I am way into short stories, because aside from dense, 500 page history monographs, I can't seem to muster up the attention to finish anything more than 150 pages, so collections of short stories are my thing lately. I really really liked The Great Wall of China, and I couldn't stop laughing at the Village Schoolmaster. The Problem of Our Laws is very much akin to the Elizabethan extreme satire which fit the rather gruesome and insensitive era of that time when death and suffering were a bit more commonplace and even public spectacle (today that would be seriously distasteful even in Europe
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