I always found it a little hard to get into his text proper, but hearing him read it w/ a bit of musical accompaniment is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watc

I always found it a little hard to get into his text proper, but hearing him read it w/ a bit of musical accompaniment is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9NDxYf122I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9NDxYf122I It might not grab you at first, but if you spend some time with it, there's a whole weird world that opens up in there. And Burroughs is a masterly reader. He also contributed one vocal track and a bunch of lyrics to the excellent Tom Waits album "The Black Rider".