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Title: Simply Awful
Review: I was tempted to read this book after reading several of Kerouac's, but was dissapointed to find nothing but the incoherent rambling of a brain dead dope fiend. It was neither enjoyable nor interesting. If this book had not been charged with obscenity, I doubt if it would be read by anyone at all. A Reader describes it excellently, "to manipulate words into incomprehensible patterns of incoherent ideas." It does not describe what it is like to be alive and free thnking; the book describes (poorly) death and the enslavement of the will by addiction. To make oneself unable to think and communicate by surfeiting on drugs does not make one a genius or an artist. The Naked Lunch is as artistic as a ceramic toilet.
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