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The Soft Machine: The Restored Text

The Nova Trilogy, Book 1

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The Soft Machine: The Restored Text

Written by: William S. Burroughs
Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
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In The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs begins an adventure that will take us into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.

A total assault on the powers that turn humans into machines by writing and fixing our life scripts, Burroughs' original "cut-up" book was itself rewritten in three different forms. This new edition of The Soft Machine clarifies for the first time the extraordinary history of its writing and rewriting, demolishes the myths of his chance-based writing methods, and demonstrates for a new generation the significance of Burroughs' greatest experiment.

(P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Pretty much three and a half hours of explicit mastery of beat poetry. A glimpse into the madness of Burroughs. Excellently performed by the narrator. I enjoyed it more than I thought i would. If you're feeling daring sit back and give it a listen. Just don't listen to it in the car with the windows down.

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The narrator did a great job of navigating and pacing this complex work. The work itself is very raw and poetic.

Unwavering reading of this classic

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