Name: The Finger
ISBN: 9780241339077

William S. Burroughs

He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.' These terse, confessional short stories swerve from delirious heights to hideous withdrawals.

The Finger

First book I have ever read as an adult and it was definitely a fun one super short easy read and super creative, junkie Christmas, Lee and the boys and the finger were my favs

Beatrice McCarthy 

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Yea I mean, what'd ya expect from a junkhead writing with them "cut-up" method and stuff? 

Most of it are just beaucoup de bruit pour rien, but the Junky Christmas one was 👌👌👌 . Gotta spread the message of sharing even one is a junkhead, pretty neat stuff.

Merry Christmas, Mr. William Lee 😁

Inês Alegria Ferreira

Apparently, this is the same author from Naked Lunch which is a book I really liked to read since I heard so much about it. I'm happy I got a taste of William S. Burroughs writing before digging into s more extensive read. This was probably the shortest little book ever, It literally took me less than an hour to finish it. It is a collection of 6 short stories and I was very much surprised. Only I still haven't figured out if I was surprised on a positive or negative level. I really liked his writing that's for sure. The way the characters act, move, talk, and how the plot evolves is really easy to comprehend and very amusing and gripping. Nevertheless, I barely understood each story by itself. Plus there were characters that showed up in multiple stories and that only made me more confused. I truly would like that some texts could have been longer and we could get a more general view of what was that we were getting into.

'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.' A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamous Beat legend. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Apparently, this is the same author from Naked Lunch which is a book I really liked to read since I heard so much about it. I'm happy I got a taste of William S. Burroughs writing before digging into s more extensive read. This was probably the shortest little book ever, It literally took me less than an hour to finish it. It is a collection of 6 short stories and I was very much surprised. Only I still haven't figured out if I was surprised on a positive or negative level. I really liked his writing that's for sure. The way the characters act, move, talk, and how the plot evolves is really easy to comprehend and very amusing and gripping. Nevertheless, I barely understood each story by itself. Plus there were characters that showed up in multiple stories and that only made me more confused. I truly would like that some texts could have been longer and we could get a more general view of what was that we were getting into.


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