[Darkwolf377]

I was never into Burroughs. I can’t read enough about Kerouac, and recently got the excellent documentary about his writing of Big Sur, but Burroughs always put me to sleep. I have always been fascinated by how Burroughs was, like Ted Kennedy, so beloved for his politics that feminists simply ignored that he’d killed a woman and gotten away with it.

[Slings and Arrows]

Frankly, I never "got" Burroughs. Read Naked Lunch trying to figure out why he was regarded as a genius; tried to read Nova Express (I think), gave up. Maybe his fans were on drugs too.