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title: "Call Me Burroughs: A Life Audio CD – Audiobook, January 28, 2014"
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# Call Me Burroughs: A Life Audio CD – Audiobook, January 28, 2014

**Brand:** barry miles
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- **What is this?** Call Me Burroughs: A Life Audio CD – Audiobook, January 28, 2014 by barry miles
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## Customer Reviews

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    On the occasion of 100 years since Wm S. Burroughs' birth
  

*by T***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2014*

Barry Miles has written a cultural biography of William Burroughs at an important moment. This clear-eyed, thoughtful book solidly rings out Burroughs' generation by placing him at the crossroads (and, sometimes, in the crosshairs) of the cultural moments he strides across. Here, also, is the ethos of post-war America that Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg helped create. Miles begins with the silent movie era of Burroughs' childhood in St. Louis amidst an ever-present and caring, but sometimes out-of-touch and emotionally distant, family group. Through these early relationships and, later, his restless wanderings among colleges which finally land him in New York City just before World War II, we are introduced to the way in which Burroughs builds up his writer's palette of images, but does not use them to further any sort of self-knowledge or significant prose for a number of years. The most engaging cultural moment to which Miles introduces us is New York City during the war. It's riveting, but it isn't pretty. Burroughs and his extended group of friends are not conventional in any way and it is their seeking after a "new vision," that leads, ultimately, to the language and culture of the Beats. This is a book lover's biography (not a literary biography, in the dry, academic sense) about a man in love with words, creatively drinking (and shooting up) and imagining his way through a maze of puritanical rules and mores, out the other side to something freer, less restrictive, dangerous in many ways. Burroughs and his Beat friends celebrated, denigrated, then tore down American society's twin gods -- wealth and prestige -- and replaced them, at least for themselves and those who came of age in the 1960s, with earthier elements. Sex is very important to Burroughs' story and Miles isn't prissy about describing the sex, both gay and straight, and the changing relationships within and on the fringes of the group. There is much tragedy within this tale of geniuses, misfits and dreamers and Miles tells it. The book is well-researched and told in a smooth prose style, utilizing Burroughs' own voice whenever possible. I wanted Burroughs' words in my head as I read about his life; so connected to each other, Kerouac finally got Burroughs to write and Burroughs got Kerouac to write better. I would not recommend this to the shy, retiring reader. There is every form of sex here, along with booze and meanness, crime and criminals, portrayed intimately in the glare of Burroughs' writer's lens. Burroughs needed to know everything and see it all. Barry Miles is hauling us along on that journey with him so we can better understand.

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    Call me exhausted
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2015*

The first 300 or so pages are interesting as it chronicles the same material found in the highly readable Junky and Queer. The middle tome introduces a veritable white pages of male characters that flit in and out of Burroughs' life, made more complicated because so many  seem to share the same name, and the author randomly identifies these male multitudes by first and last name, last name, or first name. The last 3-600 pages pick up again as the subject ages and there are less names to keep up with.At times, the book reads more as an appointment book or catalog. I would have liked to have seen more, I don't know, depth? Emotion? Motivating factors? While I certainly learned many, many, many facts about the prolific artist, I'm not so sure if I am any closer to understanding him. It seems as if there were opportunities for the author to delve deeper, but as soon as you think, ok, now we're going to get somewhere, Miles immediately yanks the reader back into superficial pages and pages of names and places.Overall though, a good read. Even if you're not a Burroughs groupie this biography gives a very good cultural overview that spans decades and continents.

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    Enigmatic at best, yet such talent
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2014*

This is an exhaustive, yet intimate portrayal of our most incredibly "outsider" author- sometimes associated with the Beat Generation (although Burroughs clearly did not relish the link himself), eventually a forerunner and grandfather of the Punks. As a fellow writer, and reader of many of his books, my favorite sections are about his writing "process," of which there are less details. The parts of the book in which Burroughs got into cut-ups, collages, journaling, techniques that combined other arts with writing; or his "Ugly Spirit," and Burroughs' methods of daily subversion: these spoke the most to me. Overall, Burroughs seems very sad, even desperate, and perhaps this is truly the modern (post-modern?) American artist at his "work?" Still, I am a major fan, and so grateful for the impact of reading this American original with the cold, blue gaze. I do recommend this new massive, throughly researched biography, Call Me Burroughs.

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