You know how writers should show, and not tell? Yeah, I’m a big advocate for that, because very few can get away with telling instead of showing. Fewer still can take it and make it something amazing.

Burroughs does that.

In this very fast paced book, everything is told, but it works. His pen’s simplicity is in its ease with its mastery with words, because he can sketch entirely developed characters in a single paragraph. Reading Queer is like a whiplash, and not like reading at all: it sucks you in, and you’re taken on a journey. It’s the sort of book that you feel a concrete connection to.

This is the book that made me fall for Burroughs’s works, and for many good reasons. I can’t lie that one of them is how a guy is treated very much like a manic pixie dream girl, which is both refreshing and almost hilarious because who knew Burroughs drew the blueprint! (lol)

Sorry for not having been able to formulate a structured opinion, this was a whiplash of a book and I still cannot collect my thoughts!