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The Ticket That Exploded (Paperback)

by William Burroughs (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New edition edition (17 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0586085912
  • ISBN-13: 978-0586085912
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry of the Absurd, 22 Jul 2003
By M. L. Sheppard "jawdge" (London) - See all my reviews
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This is my favourite of all Burroughs' novels. The whole book is crackling with ideas and the cut-up technique seems to reveal a strange kind of poetry. I certainly found this easier to read than Naked Lunch. Very haunting and stays with you long after you've finished reading. Very highly recommended. Pick any page at random and you will see the beauty through the chaos.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars one weird bizarre galactic ADVENTURE, 27 Jul 1999
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this book is an outerlandish(outer space) type of bizarre nuclear book... it has what few books lack visual impact, and adventure..and keeps exploding with action (unlike few books that stick to one place for a million hours..and emotions, it jumps countlessly with entertainment and never fails at that.
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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Reissue of a classic, 13 Feb 2002
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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'The Ticket that Exploded' is one of Burroughs best works and I think one of his most approachable!...Older academic writing on Burroughs classifies it as part of a trilogy, following 'Naked Lunch' & 'The Soft Machine' (reading both these prior can help!). The recent 'Word Virus' reader (highly reccomended) puts 'Naked Lunch' in an interzone section- as it was not a 'cut up' in the Gysin-sense (like Bowles 'The Sheltering Sky'). Here 'The Ticket that Exploded' is considered part of a 'cut-up'-trilogy with 'The Soft Machine' & 'Nova Express'- which does make more sense- as later books like 'The Wild Boys' & 'Cities of the Red Night' would be,er, slightly more conventional.

'The Ticket that Exploded' uses the cut-up form, Burroughs notion of recording elements on tape and creating alternate selves (not far from Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'). It is a SF-book, his most obvious SF-book- though it explores the 'inner space' established by JG Ballard (a longtime fan). It is about 'Operation Other-half'- 'Operation Rewrite'- 'The word'- the word is now a virus, as a sexual parasite takes over the body- we meet Johnny Yen again ("hypnotizing chickens") and green Venusian-boy-girls...This book has to be read- while seemingly constructed from nonsense it makes complete horrific blackly amusing sense- inserting themes that would be continued in later works- such as Gysin's theory that the word would lead to our extinction or that 490,000 years previously humans had wiped themselves out with nuclear arms in the Gobi desert- the language is a more approachable continuation of what Joyce was doing towards the end of 'Ulysses' and in the unreadable 'Finnegans Wake-Ballard states in 'A User's Guide to the Millennium' that he considers Burroughs to be Joyce's lineal succesor- which rings true reading this- Excepting the conventional 'Junky' & 'Queer', I think both this and 'The Wild Boys' are the easiest Burroughs to read- though all of his major works ought to be read- Come and read about the invisible generation, the Nova Police and Operation Rewrite- a great imaginative tome up there with the madness of PK Dick's 'Valis'- the ticket that exploded- and has there been anything better than the section from 'Combat troops in the area'- the rain of images- a snowfall of pictures-"Word falling-Photo falling-Time falling-Towers, open fire" - this may not be literature as you know it- but it is among the best writing of the 20th century-into thin air.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The best one so far...
I think I may have cocked up the order some how but I've been working at reading the Burroughs cu-up cannon in order. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. P. Rigby

2.0 out of 5 stars Warped
One of the few books that I simply could not be bothered to waste any mental energy trying to finish. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2003 by Mr. T. A. Bandfield

5.0 out of 5 stars masterpeice
TOPPO!! A unique and wonerful book. Very influentual. If your interested in experimental writting this book is for you. Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2002 by corlett_mike@hotmail.com

1.0 out of 5 stars Bleah. Double bleah.
I'm all for experimentation with words as much as anybody else, but THIS book isn't really an experiment at all. Read more
Published on 27 Aug 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly "better" and more insightful than "Naked Lunch"
This book is the final word in cut-ups and Burroughs' tape experiments of the early 1960's. This is Burroughs' most beautifully written text, if somewhat overrepetitive at... Read more
Published on 11 Jun 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars a messed up text
This is the parallel text to The Soft Machine and Nova Express. But the qualities of these two almost unreadable but awesome works of art are only partly presented here. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 1998

3.0 out of 5 stars a messed up text
This is the parallel text to The Soft Machine and Nova Express. But the qualities of these two almost unreadable but awesome works of art are only partly presented here. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Soundbite #1 No revloutions ever
It is difficult to attach the concept of attainment and climax to Burrough's texts, the act of reading as a sexual encounter is never teleoligcial: as an historical moment, and... Read more
Published on 20 Jun 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Mimetic
Yes, it's a cut-up. Yes, it can be difficult to read, but what Burrough's accomplishes is the denial of Derridia/Lacanian deconstructionism that is so rife in current textual... Read more
Published on 31 Jul 1997

4.0 out of 5 stars Creating an alternative reality.
At last, a novel that makes ejaculation seem like a normal reaction to every situation. I get the feeling mr. Read more
Published on 15 April 1997

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