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My Education: A Book of Dreams

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My Education is William S. Burroughs's final collection, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, written over several decades and as personal and close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary -- conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex -- to the erotic, bizarre, and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book, dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves. "Mr. Burroughs has lost none of his irreverence or wit, but in recent years he has acquired an elegant, elegiac tone." - The New York Times This description may be from another edition of this product.
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Customer Reviews

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William Burrough's latest works are essential

Only few books might change your life & the way you are thinking. William Burroughs latest works such as My Education A Book Of Dreams are really essential and maybe the most accessible books ever written by this genius author. Burroughs bibliography is very diversified and is offering a huge puzzle to rearrange which might give you keys for the understanding of the modern society. With the cut-up technique, his work appears...

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A tourbook of the Land of the Dead

This really isn't a novel. It is much more than that. This is where Burroughs got so many of the images for his life time of work. You see, this is a tour book of The Land of the Dead, or as he also called it, The Place of Dead Roads. While he subtitles this work _A Book of Dreams_ he is careful to point out that these are a very special sort of dream. They are dreams that are more real than waking life. Indeed, the author...

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One of his best novels.

I think this was a very interesting concept to record 5 years worth of dreams and then put them into a book. Some of the images and characters Burroughs comes up with are so vivid and so realistic that when I read this I actually felt like I was with Burroughs during this subconcious journey.I liked how he used his dreams as education, and how he realized the importance of his dreams; a very Freudian quality. I think that...

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Beautifully layered words

This book is my introduction to Mr. Burroughs, but it definatly will not be the end. I have never read a book so detached yet so intriging, each paragraph takes you further from the "real" concrete world and closer to a world that is so complex and confusing. Rather than trying to make this a thesis or make this book into a lesson, Burroughs treats the subject as a observer and as an experience. It is a short book, you have...

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A True Book of Dreams

The criticisms of this book commonly state that it is disjointed and detached. Finally, a book of dreams that doesn't pursue some interconnection of the dreams or a relation of them to reality. There are recurring themes, but as in the dreams every person has, they are recurring dreams, and they do not suppose a greater meaning than being dreams. This book let's your mind dream along with Burroughs. Some parts are detailed,...

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