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shambrimurphy 's review for:
Queer
by William S. Burroughs
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I made the choice to view this voice in two planes, one reflective glass of a swell of loneliness and the other, the mangled reflection of the author. Pluck a pearl from these pages in the authenticity of loneliness for a queer soul. Lee reaches out to others as a phantom and yearns for a deep connection of acceptance but to cope with his world he’s numbed himself, shot glasses, spoons, needles, pills. Pills on yellow slips that come rejected just as he is.
Allerton is beautiful, young, subversive and integrated into the world- everything which a stumbling awkward drunk queer like Lee can never allow himself to be.
The relationship in the book is a struggling closet case being pursued mostly unwillingly by an aggressively lustful older man with money who lurks around waiting for any chance to spend time with him. You feel the tension of his desperate clawing at affection, at love, and how it falls flat into the paid hands of a younger boy off the street.
But the reality of this book is the entitled racist pedophilic author. Too many pages are wasted on the fantasy lust of Lee towards adolescent boys and caricatures of Mexican people in a rich white gay colony within Mexico City.
If you want to see a lonely queer soul go watch the well crafted movie that gifts you the value of this book without the pedophilia.
Allerton is beautiful, young, subversive and integrated into the world- everything which a stumbling awkward drunk queer like Lee can never allow himself to be.
The relationship in the book is a struggling closet case being pursued mostly unwillingly by an aggressively lustful older man with money who lurks around waiting for any chance to spend time with him. You feel the tension of his desperate clawing at affection, at love, and how it falls flat into the paid hands of a younger boy off the street.
But the reality of this book is the entitled racist pedophilic author. Too many pages are wasted on the fantasy lust of Lee towards adolescent boys and caricatures of Mexican people in a rich white gay colony within Mexico City.
If you want to see a lonely queer soul go watch the well crafted movie that gifts you the value of this book without the pedophilia.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pedophilia