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Title: most overrated book of the century
Review: What is the point of all this?? It begs to be read as an example of how you can fool people into believing you have something to say. It is just a long trip from old William, but heck, anyone can get high and write nonsense. Besides, irreverent tone (remember the accursed poets?), rupture of the traditional narrative (remember Joyce?), surrealistic experience (remember Breton himself?)... let's face it: William Burroughs was a rebel, and an elocuent icon of what contemporary ideology hates, and an incredibly strong figure at that; however, that does not make him a good writer, much less a literary vanguardist, only a critic. Naked Lunch is the living proof of the author's wit, given his ultimate status as a popular icon... evidence of how something exotic or irrational can automatically be taken as interesting or avant-grade.
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