content: Burroughs's vision of decay through the eyes of the junky may be the most innovative (and infuriating) book of the twentieth century. Burroughs blends fact and fiction into a melange of imagery that assaults the senses and purees the brain with its "trust me/trust me not" sensibility. Naked Lunch is like Henry Miller meets Thomas Pynchon (though it's faster than Miller and, in the end, more understandable than Pynchon). Every adult should read this book, if for no other reason than to blast them out of the cocoon of suburban domesticity that we make for ourselves in this day and age. BRAVO