Originally posted by Mr.Ilektrik:
Burroughs Is superb. An absolute original. I got into Burroughs through Numan, mainly. Particularly the novel Dead Fingers Talk, which was mentioned in Ray Coleman's autobiography, I think, along with Naked Lunch.
Other books I recommend are:
THE YAGE LETTERS
MY EDUCATION: A BOOK OF DREAMS
THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED
THE SOFT MACHINE
A shameless plug: My 2nd Apparatus And Hand album Junk Receiver (Broadcasts From Bug Powder Radio) is inspired by William Burroughs. Only one track to finish off & it will be available free to anyone who wants a copy.
Burroughs is an absolute genius. Other works you should try are his last trilogy of books; Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands. Their very dense and full of bloody history shifting as they do between time and place.
Two other books if you can get them; 'The Beat Hotel' and 'Le Hombre Invisibles' by Barry Miles are very good reads. The first is all about the period that Burroughs & Ginsberg et al stayed in Paris, the second a biography.
Yes Ilektrik - I'd love to have copy of your album!
Garry
