Twelve kinds of taste
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Drug Use, Heroin, Drug addicts, Recovering addicts
Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, first published in 1959. Formed as a series of inter-connected adventures set in locations as diverse as the U.S. Mexico and Morocco sees the protagonist, Burroughs’ alter-ego William Lee on the run from the police and always searching for his next fix. Burroughs once stated that the chapters can be read in any order.
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Prestige, open-ended, bleak and formally daring.
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On Open Library, 42 have read it and 273 want to.
“I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train ... Young, good looking, crew cut, Ivy League, advertising exec type fruit holds the door back for me.”
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
