Waterstones The Yage Letters
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Price: £14.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters - a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he journeys through South America, writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug, using it to travel through time and space, to derange his senses - the perfect drug for the author of the wild decentred books that followed. Years later, Ginsberg writes back as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps, and the drug worse and more profound than he had imagined.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780141189864
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780141189864
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Author: Scott Claxton
Rating: 5
Review: After reading Terrence mckenna's True Hallucinations which i found fascinating and also Graham Hancocks Supernatural (both highly recommended) i wanted to find out more about the history of "westerners" discovering the arts of the shaman of south america in particular. This is probably the best place to start if you know nothing about the subject and is a great story even if you have no interest in it too. I found the travel monologues the most enjoyable part of the book which were very similar to mckenna's adventures and portray a very vivid account of what it must have been like back then.
Author: Millie
Rating: 1
Review: I very rarely give up on a book but I had to with this one. The introduction was very lengthy and I found it uninteresting but thought I'd continue into the book anyway. Half way through the first chapter I realised I had no interest in the authors experiences. I can normally find some redeeming features that encourage me to continue but not with this book.
