Talk:Junkie (novel)
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I added some facts and opinion to the existing article, which was kind of vague and the picture was too large in my opinion.--Mikerussell 03:26, 2005 July 18 (UTC) I actually am the unidentified 64.... user too.--Mikerussell 03:26, 2005 July 18 (UTC)
[edit] Article title
An anonymous editor had posted a question here (and then removed it) suggesting this article be moved to Junky as more editions seemed to use that title. I don't know if that's necessarily the case, but Junkie was the book's first publication title, so that's the title it should be listed under, even though Burroughs wanted it to be called Junk. 23skidoo 11:38, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Plagerised?
Someone should make note of the fact that large parts of Junkie were plagiarised from Jack Black's memoir, You Can't Win. Burroughs admitted as much when he wrote the introduction to the re-issued edition of Black's book. 71.213.228.8 21:49, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Is there a third-party confirmation of this? I can't find anything to back this up, and haven't been able to locate a copy of said book. 23skidoo 00:23, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Yeah but who did Jack Black plagerise from? Seriously though I think it is incredibly unlikely that Junky was plagiarised from Black- just from a common sense perspective- the material is so different. He openly admits he was inspired by the book as a teenager, so the notion of plagerism would be a overstatement if not misrepresentation. The anonymous editor should explain or identify some source. Off the top of my head, the only Burroughs novel that even remotely fits the topic of You Can't Win- at least topically similiar enough to even approach the term plagery- is 1985's Place of the Dead Roads. He did have some writing blocks in the late 70s and maybe he borrowed by accident or purposefully for that novel? Otherwise, I think it's incorrect. --Mikerussell 07:19, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Carl Solomon
I changed "owner and publisher of Ace Books" to "worked at Ace Books"; the owner and publisher was A.A. Wyn. See Ace Books for references. I don't know anything about Solomon, and he may have been a senior figure at Ace, but based on the references I've seen it's highly unlikely he was in an ownership position. If there are references to support his role, I would be glad to hear about them as I could then update the Ace Books article with that information. Mike Christie (talk) 15:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
