The Wild Boys reviewed

Usually when a band gets me to read a book....uh, actually that never happens.  But it did when I saw Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" video which fired up my imagination with fire-breathing, a robot head and Simon LeBon almost drowning.  So I picked up William S. Burroughs Wild Boys to see how awesome the book was.....it wasn't.

I think what happens in the book is that it's the FUTURE!  War is happening for some reason and a animalistic tribe called, get this, The Wild Boys is running wild on civilization or what passes for it.  At the middle is some guy wandering around doing stuff and seeing guys doing it with other guys.  Some other stuff happens but I don't know what and it all connects to the Penny Arcade Peep Show where stuff happens that I don't know or care about.

Burroughs has a reputation of writing the first thing that came to mind and the story evolving from there...like free-form jazz.  It doesn't work here at all.  Nothing makes any sense, there's no actual cohesion and it all becomes an incoherent bore.  I'll admit that it does have a couple cute ideas like this obsession with creating gay porn with GASP an actual story.  There's also a cute section about the military and all of its military hijinks but that quickly gets sidetracked by all the homoeroticism in this.

Obviously there's nothing wrong with being gay or writing about homoeroticism but I do take issue with poorly written and repetitive homoeroticism.  Here's how it all plays out.  There's going to be two boys and through some pathetic excuse their pants come off.  Then they get boners and a jar of vasoline magically appear and then they have sex.  And it's all the same in all the sex scenes and there's gotta be ten of them at least.  There's no foreplay, no blowjobs or handjobs.  It's all boring sex.

And quite frankly, I think Burroughs has done much more damage to literature than Stephanie Meyer did with Twilight.  At least we treat Meyer has a joke but Burroughs though, there's respect and worship for this moron.  And all for his incoherent, poorly written spiel with a liberal dose of boring sex.  Anyone who likes this book or Burroughs is a damn dirty hippie.

Watch the Duran Duran "Wild Boys" video, it doesn't suck.

2/10