tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510763115118800825.post8763273916467695231..comments2023-09-26T11:07:08.180-04:00Comments on The Year It Didn't Happen: Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThat Hankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514310999129694443noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510763115118800825.post-91867255319553045632008-09-08T09:50:00.000-04:002008-09-08T09:50:00.000-04:00Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the style, I just co...Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the style, I just couldn't imagine how it could be made into a movie. That makes more sense.That Hankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05514310999129694443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510763115118800825.post-83333689543208334302008-09-08T04:13:00.000-04:002008-09-08T04:13:00.000-04:00I think you would find 'The Place of Dead Roads', ...I think you would find 'The Place of Dead Roads', The Western Lands and Cities of the Red Night' far more readable. Back in the days of Naked Lunch, Burroughs was working a lot with the 'cut-up' method, thus obviating lucid prose. <BR/><BR/>The movie version of Naked Lunch extracts a lot of the recurring themes in all of Burroughs's work and fuses it with his biographical material, in the process creating a rather interesting film. Peter Weller provides a surprisingly good performance.John M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04859616556524188883noreply@blogger.com