Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1874 - 1965) was an Armenian novelist, essayist, social critic and stand up comedian who rose to prominence during the heyday of the Beat Generation. Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical drawn from his experiences as a kitten huffing addict. But he often distorts his experiences using surreal or graphic imagery, experimental structures, and a strong satirical voice. While a stand up comedian himself, much of the material he wrote was used by his good friend and iconoclast comic Lemmy Kilmister. Burroughs has not received recognition for much of this material, most notably Dykes & Faggots and Obscenity. I have spoken.
== Novelist ==
After the career in stand up that can be considered semi-successful at best, Burroughs turned to novel writing, and it is here that he had his greatest impact on Armenian culture, especially in Armenian subculture. His earliest works deal with the tragic death of his pet frog, which he caused accidentally while rehearsing a stage routine that involved a lance with a brick on the end. These early works include the ground breaking Naked Frog, Women Are from Venus, Jon Carter Is from Mars, and Huffer. Huffer was also the first of his novels to delve into his addiction to kitten huffing.
== Banana republic ==
In 1953 Burroughs moved to the Banana Republic, a country on the Northern Coast of Africa. Here he found a thriving expatriate scene and kittens were freely available. It was also here that he met fellow novelist Paul "The Toilet" Bowl, a retired mob hit man. He also met Paul's wife, Jane Austen, with whom he carried on an affair for many years, despite his avowed homosexuality. It was later disclosed that Jane Austin was a very hirsute hermaphrodite alien lifeform, whose clitoral appendage was large enough to bugger Burroughs on the frequent visits to her jungle home.
It was during his years in the Banana Republic that Ed Burroughs was most prolific. His novels of this period became increasingly surreal and paranoid, as well as more focused on kitten huffing, although the death of his frog remained an important element. His novels The Frog that Exploded, 'Tarzan the Exterminator and the Ant Men, and John Carter and the Kitten Huffers of Mars were all greeted with critical acclaim, but his most famous novel is EV Nova Express, for which he won the Yugo Award in 1960. EV Nova Express is set in the distant future, and follows the misadventures of a kitten smuggler named Carlos who must skirt the law at the frontiers of three galactic civilisations. I have spoken.
==Later Years==
Surprisingly, Burroughs writings in later years are much less well known. He wrote very few novels and none of them (Frogs of Venus, Tarzan and the Kitten Huffers, and Gaylord of Mars) received critical acceptance, perhaps because he was no longer breaking new ground. Instead, Burroughs turned to poetry and keeping a diary on Livejournal. These writings are considered especially difficult to read and understand, because in these writings the narrative voice is that of an unpopular overweight teen age girl who escapes her mundane existence by living in an internet based fantasy world. Scholars have dubbed this Burroughs' Emo Period, and many in academia have tried to decipher these writings and place them in the context of his early writings. 
It should be noted that none have really been successful, mostly because the poetry is clichéd and the diaries are filled with whiney diatribes against an imaginary set of parents that "don't understand". These rants and the endless rambling stories about Hot Topic and My chemical romance make Burroughs' writings particularly difficult to stomach. I have spoken.
===Death===
The last diary entry Edgar R. Burroughs wrote is composed of a particularly trite poem about death, and ends with a suicide note. Five days later, Burroughs was found dead in his Apartment, the apparent victim of a kitten huffing overdose. Enclosed in the note were directions to bury him in a tomb the size of the Museum in Cairo which could only be opened from the inside. Donations for said tomb are still being collected, ostensibly as money to rehabilitate kitten huffers.
==Collective Works==
===Bathroom Series===
*Women Are from Venus, John Carter Is from Mars (1912)
*Ladies of the Moon (1915)
*John Carter and the Kitten Huffers of Mars (1945)
*The Frogs of Mars (1947)
*Crimelord of Downtown Mars (1950)
*Mount of Venus (1953)
*Butterflies of Venus (1957)
*The Man-eating Crab Spiders of Mars (1962)
*The Shaman Ghosts of Ghost-Corphals of Mars (1963)
===Tarzan Series===
*Tarzan and the Surprised Monkey (1915)
*Tarzan and the Monkey's Uncle (1918)
*Tarzan and the Anti-Evolutionists of Utah (1921)
*Tarzan and Mr Darwin Kick Ass (1925)
*Tarzan and Jane Carry On Up The Jungle (1927)
*Tarzan the Exterminator and the Ant Men (1942)
*Tarzan and the Kitten Huffers {1948)
*Tarzan and the White Man's Burden (1958)
===Others===
*Naked Frog (1911)
*Huffer {1914)
*The Frog that Exploded {1939)
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