Reading is great. I'm currently reading my way through Bukowski's entire back catalogue, having read Burroughs'. It's weird that they are synonymous with being from the beats. I get it now with Burroughs, having felt disillusionment with his later work which almost enters the Dali-esq faux-eccentricity and insincerity in comparison with junky and queer which were both great, naked lunch was pretty impenetrable as far as narrative flow goes, but I still am of the view that I'm yet to 'get' the book and at some juncture I'll fall into it's style and flow, as when I first got into it I'd come off a f.Scott Fitzgerald kick and their styles jar violently (like one of benway's experiments).
My point... was... That I don't really like the thought of Bukowski and Burroughs being lumped in with Ginsberg and Kerouac (both who leave me cold). Obviously it's irrelevant how I 'feel' about the placement of writers and their work as it is historical (in the loosest sense of that word). I just find the raw guts of Henry Chinski's drunken trawl through America, or William Lee's pseudo scientific declarations of junk facts in stark contrast to the overwhelming blandness of 'on the road'. But there we go. By the way this post is really just about me pointing out that I can read.
