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William s Burroughs jr

ChemicallyEnhanced said:
Not, but I HAVE the book.
Think I'll bump it up my TBR list.
Really enjoyed his fathers books.
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How come he died young and his old man lived to be eighty something. ( he like guns a lot). The heroin didn't kill him. Oh just read he killed his liver in a short time drinking. He got a liver transplant and stop taking his anti transplant rejection drugs and kept drinking and died. Found in a ditch and taken to a hospital and died the next day. 33 years old, and apparently was a good writer. He apparently had a style similar to his dad and Jack Kerouac.
 
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Jnowhere said:
How come he died young and his old man lived to be eighty something. ( he like guns a lot). The heroin didn't kill him. Oh just read he killed his liver in a short time drinking. He got a liver transplant and stop taking his anti transplant rejection drugs and kept drinking and died. Found in a ditch and taken to a hospital and died the next day. 33 years old, and apparently was a good writer. He apparently had a style similar to his dad and Jack Kerouac.
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Thanx
 
My flags still unblown on Burroughs. I don't see it being flown... that being said initially concluding Charles Bukowski was meat head garbage and rereading his works that spun me 180 degrees into massive respect and enjoyment,,,, as my mental capacity and literal understanding developed,, who's to say Burrows might come around for me?
 
Jnowhere said:
How come he died young and his old man lived to be eighty something. ( he like guns a lot). The heroin didn't kill him. Oh just read he killed his liver in a short time drinking. He got a liver transplant and stop taking his anti transplant rejection drugs and kept drinking and died. Found in a ditch and taken to a hospital and died the next day. 33 years old, and apparently was a good writer. He apparently had a style similar to his dad and Jack Kerouac.
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Damn, that's a rough way to go. Alcohol can definitely kill you quickly, though. All the specialists told me I wouldn't make it to 30 because of alcohol. I've made it 2 years past that, but probably only because I stopped drinking when I was 26 (I do still drink VERY occasionally, like maybe 3 or 4 times a year, and even then I limit myself to a maximum of three drinks).
Any idea why he stopped taking the anti-rejection meds?
 
ChemicallyEnhanced said:
Damn, that's a rough way to go. Alcohol can definitely kill you quickly, though. All the specialists told me I wouldn't make it to 30 because of alcohol. I've made it 2 years past that, but probably only because I stopped drinking when I was 26 (I do still drink VERY occasionally, like maybe 3 or 4 times a year, and even then I limit myself to a maximum of three drinks).
Any idea why he stopped taking the anti-rejection meds?
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He had some sort of surgery he didn't heal from
 
Jeanpauldash said:
He had some sort of surgery he didn't heal from
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He acquired cirrhosis of the liver due to alcohol abuse and received a liver transplant in 1976; but stopped taking tissue rejection medications and resumed drinking in 1981, and died as a result.
 
ChemicallyEnhanced said:
Damn, that's a rough way to go. Alcohol can definitely kill you quickly, though. All the specialists told me I wouldn't make it to 30 because of alcohol. I've made it 2 years past that, but probably only because I stopped drinking when I was 26 (I do still drink VERY occasionally, like maybe 3 or 4 times a year, and even then I limit myself to a maximum of three drinks).
Any idea why he stopped taking the anti-rejection meds?
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Wikipedia is not that great for in depth reasearch. What is shocking and sad is that his books( Speed and Kentucky Ham) were still in print long after his death( they were combined in one book. Two books for the price of one). Compilation of two. There was a Third that included part of an unfinished novel, that included journal writings and poems, correspondence and stuff called: ' Cursed Fron Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William s Burroughs Jr.' ( 2006).

I saw them years ago as a compilation. Actually I saw it in a few bookstores. They written in his early 20's and the other in his later 20's. The third book was never published but what was written was in the other book mentioned above.

That tells me he was a good writer. He was a homeless teenage speed addict even though he had lived with his rich grandparents and I guess wandered off and got stuck in a federal in Federal Prison Hospital Farm or something but because of his age and family history he didn't go to prison. Stealing prescription pads and forging signatures and such to get prescription amphetamines. Probably better than what you can get today. This was the 60's so There was others that were more than likely better than what is available.

He shot some accidentally, as a teenager and ran away thinking he would be charged with murder. Nope, his friend lived and it was ruled accidental.

Apparently those two books are autobiographical like, On the Road( Kerouac) and Junkie( his dad). You have them. You be the judge. But he may have had talent, I mean real talent. He got a liver transplant around age 30( maybe before?) He alcoholism ruin his marriage and killed him young.

Sad him being found along a ditch next to a road or highway alive, but died the next day. Been there many times. I avoided any driving and would pass out along road sides and end up in various hospitals.
It funny if you are unconscious you don't get a citation for public drunkenness.

I can't find any reason why he personally stop taking his anti- rejection organ translant drugs. He kept drinking. But maybe he found it to be a hassle?

I bet he stopped because after a transplant you have to take 6-12 different medications and your immune system is vulnerable. You have to have a daily around the clock regiment of taking drugs at certain times like clockwork. Also, you risk getting sick and other issues because of a compromised immune system, from the drugs

Washing, your hands alot, no pets, avoid sick people and probably more. You will have to reasearch it or not.

He should have been a junkie like his dad, just kidding, sort of. He was addicted to amphetamines, when younger. His first book Speed is about being a speed addicted homeless teenager.
His second book, Kentucky Ham, is about being in the Federal Hospital Prison Farm or whatever he got sent too.

His literary career was cut short.
 
I'm glad someone has read some of the WSB Jr canon. If the style is similar to the journalistic style of Junkie, it sounds like it's just up my street.

As for WSB Jr, as my wife sadly noted 'some people are born with their self-destruct button taped firmly down' and without betraying a confidence, she's known more than her fair share of such people. People who she said 'we all knew it was just a matter of time' when it happens again.
 
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