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Summary: One of burroughs' best.
Review: The book jusnky is a very very good book by burroughs, it was a page turner that i couldnt put down. I've read meny meny of bill's books and books about him and i have to say that this is one of the best.
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Summary: dry, gray surface over pyschotic depths
Review: Until about half way through this book, one is able to grasp it as a "normal book", maybe with occasional laughs and occasional sighs of disgust directed towards the main character. However, there comes a time when one realizes that this is not a "normal book". Of course, with Burrough's later works, this much is obvious from page one. "Junky", however, is written as a very basic first-person narrative and doesn't use the elaborate and often extremely disturbing language found in, for example, "Naked Lunch." Yet, nonetheless, the absurdity and no-holds-barred attitude is still present, albeit implicit. Although i do not have the book in front of me, i would venture to say that there are not 2 consecutive pages in this book that do not in some way relate to heroin or some other addiction (Burrough's even becomes an alcoholic to the extent that his skin yellows). The main character ends up merely searching for a new addiction; what is so troubling about this book (or, to say the same thing, what is so marvelous), is the apparent lack of concern it shows for what are usually considered to be rather disgusting acts. Addiction is described in a chillingly matter-of-fact manner. This is not to say that the horrors are not described as really horrible and disgusting. Yet Burroughs tells us of "junk addiction" and the "junk equation" as if he is telling us of his life as any man would, only that his life revolves around heroin (we could say "addiction", but Burroughs believes that we are all addicts in some sense of the word). Overall, this is a book that should probably be read at least twice to grasp to the pyschotic nature beneath the dry, gray surface.
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Summary: biography of an extraordenary drug addict.....!
Review: this is an honest display of william s. burroughs 15years old heroin addiction,a vulger ,shocking biography of jentelman junky ,un controlable need to drugs took over bill lee's life which changed his conciosness forever....
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Summary: junky:great book for all
Review: i would just like to say bottom line that junky is a great book. its a shot of reality that i think all should know. anyone who could read this book then turn to the needle is seriously wrong in the mind in the first place. unfortunately where i live the book is rather blacklisted as a bad influence on kids but i'm 17 and read it and i think that its a great book for anyone age 16-90
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Summary: one great book to get hooked with
Review: When I started "Junky," I didn't know what to expect. Very soon, though, I was attached to that book like a junky to a needle. Burroughs writes in such a way that brings you in, and forces you to finish the book. Most people I know read it in less than three days. I did. I wish that all people could read this book, and many others of Burroughs' works. This is a fabulous book.
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Summary: A True Work of Great Creative/Realistic Literature
Review: I was sitting in crative writing class, and a boy in my class yelled out something about a book Called "Junky" By William S. Bourroughs. I an also an avid guitar player and my biggest inspiration was Tommy Bolin who died of a Heroin overdose. This book truly show how the addict thinks, feels, and acts all while they are pushing their own demise along. At first it seems as though the book glorifies drugs, and thugs. But upon reaching the end of the book, you'll be convinced to never venture near the needle. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who has evr comnptemplatd ever becoming a user of Heroin, Opium, or any of the substances in this book. Bottom Line: Hard, Realistic Description of a broken life, Bourroughs best work by far!
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Summary: An American Classic
Review: This book was my first experience in the world of Burrough's--one which I read many years ago. The clarity with which it was written, even about a man and by a man, in the throes of Morpheus is amazing. This book is a warning and an invitation. It makes you curious enough to want to try junk, but scared enough not to, constantly tearing on the reader's convictions and nerves. It is probably the easiest reading of the extensive Burrough's collection and a great starting place for anyone wanting to read a Burrough's novel. Although I never got hooked on morphine, I was hooked on Burrough's from the first read.
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Summary: A more constructed book than people here are letting on....
Review: Junky is a first hand tale of one man's life and drug addiction. It is a show of a slide into a world that most of its readers will never experience. It was something that at its time. immensely shocking. Beside these things, it is a really compelling tale and a wholly worthwhile read..... BUT it is also a book that is of a tradition: Burrough's was largely borrowing the style and tone of the French author Louis-Ferdinand Celine (i.e. straight ahead, haunting, almost profane at every instance, black humor at its finest). Even though the author was a drug addict, he was a HIGHLY erudite and educated drug addict-- and because of that, the bitterness of his life is interpretted in a way that comes from a man who was influenced by the doom of Celine and the historian Spengler (another must-read) as well as the sort of devil-may-care attitude of Andre Gide.... Intellectual name dropping aside, this is a powerful book artistically BECAUSE of this stuff, the D.A.R.E. message aside (and I would suggest that other instances from his life-- shooting his wife in the head while playing William Tell foremost among them hint at a D.A.R.E. message better than the almost Trainspotting cinema-veritas stuff of this book). And it's a neat counterpoint to the writings of Kerouac for anyone who wants to run the 'Beats' together (but an interesting counterpart to Ginsberg-- who was, in a sense, Burrough's student as much as Lionel Trilling's.... I'd read this book.... it's good....
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Summary: Depends on why you pick up the text
Review: Great drug insite but little for the person coming to look for what Burroughs's name has come to mean. This is his first text and a linear narrative that took him 40 years to return to (Cities of the Red Night). Burroughs cracking his knuckles.
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