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5.0�toiles sur 5 Armed and dangerous, Mars 4 2004

Par	"sfoster29" (Coral Gables FL) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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This novel reminds me of Kevin Esser's Dance of the Warriors and of the Venezuelan movie Sicario. They all deal with worlds in which gangs of teenagers are engaged in violence and sex. This is the best of the three. It is disturbing and is not for the conventional, and certainly not for the bleeding-heart types who want the United Nations to abolish the use of boys in war. Only Burroughs could have written it. The style is as unconventional as the theme. This is a world in which morality does not exist.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 "Time to move into first place...", Janv. 26 2004

Par	Akethan (Arlington, VA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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A square - a story inside other stories - the interaction of ghosts with the living - and the living with being reborn.

This was the first Burroughs I'd read. It read like a series of short stories connected like a poem. Burroughs language flows then stutters and then squares back on itself. The way he experiments with the sound and repetition of words - was exciting and something I find I do in my own writing.

I found myself keeping track of themes - St. Louis, and green (Greenbaum, Green Inn, Green Nun, Greenfield, Green Hat), and a constant reference to 1920. I haven't read much biography on Burroughs; that should come next.

Burroughs exploration of a future that becomes more primitive even as it advances, his unabashed and open erotic descriptions as a consequence of his future rather than as an expected sidetrip, and his clean and no holds barred language require that I read more of his work.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 A new world, of danger, Mars 13 2002

Par	"blissengine" (Norfolk, VA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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This futuristic tale of a band of guerrilla boys fighting against the repressive police and government agents is told through Burroughs's imaginative style, which is more about creating atmosphere and using the language itself as part of the narrative web than about creating a sharply linear story. It's like an abstract painting through images and words, so it's difficult to elaborate on plot. Interspersed are pornographic scenes of gay sex between characters, which give the story a hallucinatory sensuality. The language rhythms become more accessible as the reader travels deeper into the story and enters the world Burroughs is creating, which isn't such a bad place to visit after all.

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1.0�toiles sur 5 You All Are Beatnik Sheep
Quite simply this was the most tastless and ignorant piece of literature I have ever read. It seemed as if the book felt like convoluting any actual storyline with scenes of... Read more

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5.0�toiles sur 5 "Satan, I will destroy you forever!"-The General
I was trying to refrain from doing a Burroughs review 'cause Burroughs is brilliant and there would just be too much to talk about and if I simplified it it would sound like the... Read more

Publi� le Janv. 4 2002 par S. R Robertson

5.0�toiles sur 5 Wild Boys, not for the faint of heart, but a wonderful piece
If you liked Naked Lunch, you'll love Wild Boys. William S. Burroughs, in my opinion, one of the great American authors of the twentieth century, offers a tremendously beautiful... Read more

Publi� le Jui 8 2001 par Courtney

4.0�toiles sur 5 Burroughs' best cut-up novel.
Even better than "Naked Lunch" is my opinion. It has "Naked Lunch"'s nightmarish imagery and makes use of the same cut-up technique, but the plot is a lot... Read more

Publi� le Mai 12 2001 par Alexiel

4.0�toiles sur 5 Not everyone's cup of tea...
The back cover of my copy describes Wild Boys as 'an apocalyptic vision of global warefare' so I can understand one of the previous reviewer's surprise at finding the story... Read more

Publi� le Avril 15 2001 par anderdog

5.0�toiles sur 5 Burrough's Best?
At fourteen I read The Wild Boys and was completely in awe of William S. Burroughsgenius without knowing that others in the world were aware of his genius. Read more

Publi� le Mars 12 2001 par Glenn O. Parker Jr.

1.0�toiles sur 5 This book is not what you think it is...
The Wild Boys is advertised as an adventure book of sorts. While using an interesting writing style, be forewarned that this is a collection of homosexual fantasies with young men... Read more

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4.0�toiles sur 5 guerilla prose
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5.0�toiles sur 5 Read it if you wished Naked Lunch had been better.
After reading Burroughs' more famous novel, Naked Lunch, I was interested but disappointed. Burroughs was much too high when he wrote it and many parts an incoherant. Read more

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