I've only ever read The Soft Machine, but I've got a copy of Nova Express on the way as I've heard it's probably the best of the three and one of Burroughs' best in general. There's a recording of him reading a section of it which I listened to over and over for a while without realising it was...
back before the whole fucking shithouse goes up!
breakthrough in grey room
coordinate points
cut word lines
from a land of grass without mirrors
happy cloak
hassan i sabbah
image is virus
izzy the push
mr bradley mr martin
nova crimes
shift coordinate points
stay out of the garden of delights
terminal sewer
the caustic enzymes of woo
the centipede gods
the insectoids
the mayan caper
the nova mob
the old man of the mountain
the orgasm death gimmick
the ovens of minraud
the subliminal kid
the vegetable people
the word broken pounded twisted exploded in smoke
this is war to extermination
towers open fire
trak utilities
undifferentiated tissue
uranianwilly
I must admit I only got into Burroughs in a big way in the last 2 years, ignoring most of his stuff because of the disgusting bad taste 'beatnik' literature left in my mind as a late -teen
Of his work, I *LOVE* his 'cut-up' trilogy of Soft Machine, Ticket That Exploded and Nova Express, with...
battle instructions
blue desert of silence
crab men!
from a land of grass without mirrors
kill the priests
most distasteful thing i ever stood still for
my ice my perfect ice
rub out the words
sacred sewers of death
smash the control images
the heavy metal kid
the mayan caper
the word broken pounded twisted exploded in smoke
trak utilities
uranianwilly
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