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Original Title:	The Soft Machine
ISBN:	0802133290 (ISBN13: 9780802133298)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Nova Trilogy #1

The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)

William S. Burroughs

Paperback | Pages: 184 pages

Rating: 3.36 | 6605 Users | 274 Reviews

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Title	:	The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
Author	:	William S. Burroughs
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 184 pages
Published	:	January 13th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1961)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Literature

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In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.

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Imagine that the cable box has only 20 channels. Imagine that these channels are playing a variety of sex films, a documentary on parasitic and poisonous insects of the amazon, a sci-fi police drama strangely analogous to Dr. Who (no Daleks, sorry), and a film about junkies. Now imagine what all this would look like when the TV was set to jump randomly among channels every few seconds. This is the best description I can give to the text of The Soft Machine, however this belies the strange

The one book by Burroughs that separates the fans from the curious. The curious usually think 'no, I am not going there.' Relentless sexual assault mixed with very experimental writing makes this book... Charming! I love Burroughs' voice. I also think he's one of the great satire writers of all time. A true American (drug addict) original!

Burroughs has the power to make almost anyone's skin crawl. His works are clusters of unfocused creative genius complete with hoards of vulgarities and absurd gags. Naked Lunch was a transcendent reading experience for me, it was like nothing I'd ever read before. It was something unique and edgy, totally off the walls crazy to a point of extreme difficulty but also extreme entertainment. The Soft Machine is quite similar in these regards, but it is also even less focused and more experimental.

liked the weirdness but got bored with all the penises.

If you imagine the stereotype of an avant-garde, experimental book, that's The Soft Machine. Sure, it's a clever idea, but actually reading it would be a painful thing. My process reading the book went like this: p.5 (the start) - what's going on here? p.6 - how long is this going to continue? p.9 - oh, it's going on for the whole book. p.13 - I can see how this style conveys a delirious, fractured mind and world. p.20 - but I'm not really getting anything else out of it by reading more. p.27 -

I find the work of William Burroughs fascinating, but Im not sure I always understand it. In fact, his most experimental books, of which this is a prime example, are utterly incomprehensible from a rationalist, linear perspective. Their meaning seeps in to the subconscious and the reader is left with the feeling that they have almost but not quite grasped some profound set of truths fixed in a story that remains enigmatic, disturbing and genuinely strange.The main conceit behind *The Soft

Maybe it's me, but I don't see "genius" at work here at all. The cut-ups are sometimes fun, sometimes arresting, but the huge quantities of jism and rectal mucous in evidence here swiftly become tiresome when there's little of substance to accompany them. I thought I'd give another of the "prime" Burroughs novels a go after abandoning Naked Lunch, but I wish I hadn't. Junky and Queer are brilliant. This isn't.