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Summary: Touching, honest, but not the best
Review: I listen to this tape on long car rides. It's not as good as Hostage, but then again it's different. Bukowski is eerily calm reading this, and the stories, such as Emily Bikowski, about his first memory and his relationships with his family touch the heart, especially the ones anout his father because, like mine, his father is military, and thinks in a way that is almost the complete opposite of Hank. Pick it up, but don't expect to be amazed.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: Ive read most of Bukowski's work - Women, Post Office, Pulp, etc. - and loved the reality of the writing. This CD brings Bukowski closer to us than ever before. Its sometimes hard to hear - as it was recorded in is home - but that's the point. Its almost as if you've invited Hank over - sat him down - and asked him to read a few poems. He fumbles sometimes, you hear him drinking, smoking, and talking - and it feels like hes talking right at you. Telling you about John Fante - telling you about when he writes - and how he feels when hes not writing.. and then he takes another hit off his beer. For any fan of Bukowski - this CD will become essential. This is the first time I ever felt like I knew the read Bukowski - behind the drunk facade - a sensitive writer in love with his wife, and his life, and the art of putting pen to paper. Excellent CD. Thanks for putting it in print.
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Summary: wow.
Review: one of the few books i can read more than once. you keep finding new meaning in it. warning: don't read it in one sitting as i did. you might develop a strange sense of reality for a few days that isn't really your own... but i guess that's the point of reading. ah well. just read it. it was good
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Summary: A must for fans and newcomers alike
Review: RUN WITH THE HUNTED is by far my favorite book. Bukowski has a way of telling you the story that, although seeming very ordinary, gives you a feeling that he is showing you little bits of his insides. His poetry ranges from the crude to the beautiful, often showing more heart and feeling than one would expect from a self-professed "dirty old man." It should be noted that views on Bukowski tend to run (excuse the generalization)along gender lines. My friend counts a signed first edition of this book as his prized possession, while another friend burned it as soon as she finished reading it (hey, you can't say that she didn't try). More often than not, I feel, Buk takes you to a destination which itself is worth the journey.
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Summary: Bukowski, laughing until the end
Review: Shortly before his death, Bukowski was the subject of an anthology. It is a good anthology, not a great one, but a good one, and Bukowski seemed to think so as well. He notes during the reading of one the selections that they "Put some pretty good stuff in here" which, for Bukowski, is a whale of a compliment. It took me a long time to realize it, but Bukowski meant for his works to be funny, tragically funny perhaps, but funny nonetheless. Hearing Buk read these well known passages from his poetry and prose is a pleasure that is hard for me to communicate. He was a decent man.
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Summary: An insanley honest view from the other side of life
Review: The truth about the side of life most people would'nt or could'nt dare live. Every story and every poem reaks of life and a certain kind of vitality (a kind of negative one) that is rarely seen. This book will open your mind and make you think. The best of a true genius.
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Summary: Bukowski's life
Review: This is the composite Bukowski. There is nothing more. It reads like autobiography, because it is. If you love Buk or poetry or fiction, read it, this is an important collection of poems and stories.
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Summary: For Bukowski addicts!
Review: This recording is a MUST for all those, like myself, who regard Bukowski as the one true voice of the fringe-dwelling dispossesed. People focus on his hard-drinking, his 'bum-like' persona, but what makes him remarkable is how his fiction and poetry reflects REALITY: the 'failure' and humiliation of being an artist (and essentially voiceless) in America. I listened to this recording with friends -- and we all agreed that it captures the man. Also recommended: ... Run With the Hunted, Post Office, Ham on Rye, Factotum, Women by Buk, The Losers' Club by Richard Perez
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Summary: A voice from the other side
Review: To a kid growing up in a small town in Norway, Bukowski was definitely a voice from another reality. In many ways, his prose and poetry showed that the bums and the lowlifes - in other words; the hunted - actually had a voice, and a strong one at that... The greatness of Bukowski lies in his ability to tell extremely complex stories in a straightforward, deceptively simple language and style. The poetry is also very sharp and precise. Whatever the man did to himself with regard to drink and drugs; it never took away a smattering of his ability to observe the human predicament in all its glory - or terror, depending on whom you might ask... This 'reader' is a good place to start for anybody who would like to get acquainted with Bukowski's work. It contains poems and stories that stay on the reader's mind for a long time. The writings are also a reminder that no matter how hard a person might believe in the American dream, the dream doesn't work for everybody.
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Summary: Listen to Bukowski read from Run with the Hunted
Review: To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was a counterculture icon. From his odd jobs and wanderings to his drunken debauches and literary successes, his unique personality came alive. Here in the first and only audio anthology of his writing, Bukowski reads memorable selections of his own work. These poems and short stories serve as an autobiographical account of Bukowski's extreme life. "Read by Bukowski himself, the works take on greater magnitude from the intensity of his soft, almost calm voice . . . Stunning." - Houston Daily Cougar Includes poems and selections from: consummation of grief, Less, Delicate Than the Locust, are you drinking?, Ham on Rye, we ain't got no money, but we got rain, and The Genius of the Crowd.
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