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technomage's review against another edition
3.0
Well I have finished it. What can I say its William Burroughs. His cities of the red night is a pirate story, a detective story, a sci-fi story, its full of sex and drugs and madness and death. Its a book that is so intense a read that I had to pause at regular intervals. This is a book that smacks you about the head and demands you take it seriously while pumping you full of hallucinatory images that you may never forget.
sethwr's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
5.0
wincher2031's review against another edition
5.0
Burroughs perfects his craft in this one, the method rising above the madness.
Cities is controlled chaos at its finest, a crackpot cascade of ideas woven into a time-hopping narrative that remains just coherent enough to follow, it's entertainingly insane.
Burroughs' wildly inventive and inspiring experiments with form are the seasoning on top of a three-part narrative. One of pirate adventure, a gumshoe detective yarn and then-modern day epidemic thriller. A tryptic of done-to-death storylines with tropes abound on their own, for sure. But Burroughs is such a wonderful alchemist, he sets up a close encounter with the prose kind on these tired subgenres to create something new and I loved every page of it.
Cities is controlled chaos at its finest, a crackpot cascade of ideas woven into a time-hopping narrative that remains just coherent enough to follow, it's entertainingly insane.
Burroughs' wildly inventive and inspiring experiments with form are the seasoning on top of a three-part narrative. One of pirate adventure, a gumshoe detective yarn and then-modern day epidemic thriller. A tryptic of done-to-death storylines with tropes abound on their own, for sure. But Burroughs is such a wonderful alchemist, he sets up a close encounter with the prose kind on these tired subgenres to create something new and I loved every page of it.
bae0fpigs's review against another edition
Too confusing with the time jump for me. I felt like I missed something in the story and all of a sudden I didn’t know who the narrator was of each chapter or what time period they were even in.
arthurbdd's review
5.0
Interweaves the experimental techniques of the Nova Trilogy with more structured storytelling to kick off Burroughs' second great trilogy. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/2021/12/20/burroughs-nightmare-geography/
keerak's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
decadent_and_depraved's review against another edition
3.0
"I remember a dream of my childhood. I am in a beautiful garden. As I reach out to touch the flowers they wither under my hands. A nightmare feeling of foreboding and desolation comes over me as a great mushroom-shaped cloud darkens the earth. A few may get through the gate in time. Like Spain, I am bound to the past."
elo_oza's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5