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Original Title:	Junky
ISBN:	0142003166 (ISBN13: 9780142003169)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	William S. Burroughs

Junky

William S. Burroughs

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 53589 Users | 1533 Reviews

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Title	:	Junky
Author	:	William S. Burroughs
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	50th Anniversary Definitive Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2003 by Penguin (first published April 15th 1953)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature. American. Contemporary. 20th Century

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Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed member of two socially-despised under classes (a narcotics addict and a homosexual), Burroughs was writing as a trained anthropologist when he unapologetically described a way of life - in New York, New Orleans, and Mexico City - that by the 1940's was already demonized by the artificial anti-drug hysteria of an opportunistic bureaucracy and a cynical, prostrate media. For this fiftieth-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly recreated the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts and places the book's contents against a lively historical background in a comprehensive introduction. Here as well, for the first time, are Burroughs' own unpublished introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages, as well as auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others.

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After reading this, Trainspotting, and Requiem for a Dream, have decided that injecting heroin is unambiguously awful. (Text is unequivocal that junk is the worst thing that can happen to a man (8).)Non-fictive outworks proclaims that it takes at least three months shooting twice a day to get any habit at all [] no exaggeration to say it takes about a year and several hundred injections to make an addict (xv).Addiction rewrites the corporeal constitution: when you stop growing you start dying.

Burroughs does not pull any punches in this, his first novel. It is a plain account of the life of a junkie based on his own life. Burroughs describes his experience in a very matter of fact way; the many lows and very few highs. The descriptions of coming off heroin are horrific. It is still difficult to read, but describes a way of life and a downward spiral. The glossary at the end was very necessary for me.Burroughs illustartes how much junk dominates your life when you are an addict and the

I listened to the audiobook on YouTube. There are two different audiobooks, one read by the author and one read by David Carradine. The reader is not credited in the YouTube video, but I'm guessing it's the author. He has a raspy voice, but it works well for the reading. This was my first time reading anything from the beat generation, unless you count Charles Bukowski, who came along a little later. I tried reading some Jack Kerouac things and didn't get into them right away, so I moved on to

Very. Informative, I dare say. But also truly unique.

William Burroughs' hypnotically poignant writing was excellent in Naked Lunch, and Junkie is no different in that regard. This gripping story of the ugliness and confusion of drug addiction in the post-war 1950's is slightly dated but still relevant even today.

Let me start this out by saying that a few years ago, my pancreas tried to kill me. The doctors in the ER decided that I was going to die, so they didn't spare the painkillers. They loaded me up with Dilaudid, and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. They kept giving it to me, and then surprise! I lived. I kept getting shots of Dilaudid until I realized that the pain was gone, and I no longer needed it. But I considered lying to get another shot. Heh. That was a bad idea, so I

I've wanted to read this book several years ago, but it wasn't translated into my language and I couldn't find it in any English bookstores. Somehow, I managed to randomly find an English copy this year and so I have finnaly bought it. I think I would've given it more than 3 stars (actually, 3.5 - I want to give this book 4 stars so badly, but something doesn't let me do so. I think 3 stars is too low and 4 stars too high. My rating would honestly be 3.5 stars.) if I had read it last year. I was