Hi OTS,

You're probably right.  I usually don't like films based on a book I have read.  There have been exceptions, but Burroughs didn't write the screen play, so I don't think he has any control over how they do the film. 

And it will be hard to replicate the humor, because Burroughs gets that just in the way he writes, and that's hard to do in film.  I did read there was fierce competition among Hollywood actresses to play his mother and Annette Bening won out, or so I heard.

Agree, though, he's real talent, and that book is great (although I think "Dry" is actually better written), although I don't know how long he can continue to write books about himself.  He's going to run out of material.  (David Sedaris was able to continue only by moving to France.)