I haven't finished it yet, but so far it's pretty amazing.

Can anyone else recommend other writers/books that are like him? (besides the obvious kerouac and ginsberg)

I'm also liking Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

and now I'm going off topic...

wow this forum is so dead

Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

if you like them youll probably like rimbaud artaud aldoushuxley philip k dickken kesey tom wolfe dostoevsky Nietzsche james joyce norman o brown charles mackay

thanks, although I decided to work on all of burrough's other books before i move on

philosophy is never to be recommended u dodo

pynchon - gravity's rainbow
rushdie - fury

Another book I would love to read