Naked Lunch vs Ninety days: Which Should You Read?

Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs · 1959 ★★★☆☆ 3.5 255 pages · ≈ 4 h 43 m · Moderate

Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, first published in 1959. Formed as a series of inter-connected adventures set in locations as diverse as the U.S. Mexico and…

Ninety days Bill Clegg · 2012 ★★★★☆ 3.8 208 pages · ≈ 3 h 51 m · Moderate

The goal is ninety: just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. After seventy-three days in rehab, he returns to New York and attends two or three…