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Summary: Beer, women beer. What do you need more?
Review: This is just a great book by the late Bukowski. It reads easily,
is entertaining and never boring. It was the the first one I read by Buk, and I think it's the best one. Read it!
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Summary: Bukowski lives forever
Review: Bukowski had the guts to expose the underbelly of the
American dream, where broken warriors wander lustfully
throughout the forgotten streets, ever in search of
something to silence the pain. He is as honest a writer
as America has seen since the great days when the beats
held court, taunting late 1950's sensibilities. It's not
pretty, but neither was the life that Bukowski choose to live.
Pick up this book and read it, then pass it on to a friend.
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Summary: Makes me feal like I'm not such a freak
Review: Great book, easy read!
This guys stuff is good, buy it!
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Summary: Poetry to my ears
Review: The best book that has ever been handed to me. Bukowski really humors me with the chinaski character being a drunken womanizer. I want to grow up and be just like him. Thanks Bukowski, RIP
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Summary: One of my top ten books...
Review: This is the first Bukowski book I ever read. I was instantly hooked on the coarse, gritty language best used to describe course, gritty situations (he seems to have plenty of those). I found myself laughing out loud often at this book, and so has everyone I've recommended it to. A friend of mine actually took the book with her on a trip and had her passenger read it aloud to her as they drove up and down the east coast. It didn't matter that they both had already read it, there are just some passages that are worth hearing again!
If you are ready for some serious insight into the minds of men, read Women. Oh, and look for my favorite passage with the German girls and the curve to the left.
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Summary: Not a great one by the Buk
Review: While this book had some very funny moments, I'd hardly recommend anyone read it. In a nut shell, it's 260 pages of Buk talking about all the girls ...over a 10 year period. Oh, and he drank a lot. ...I did laugh out loud in a few parts, but I'd stick with "Ham on Rye" or "Post office" if you want to read some good stuff by this maniac.
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Summary: It Made Me Laugh
Review: If you've experienced the wild seventies this book will bring it all back to you. Outrageous and Hilarious in its conception Bukowsky delivers in a way that is frank and honest. Though some of the scenes are raunchy and gross, the work itself is true to life. All in all, I think it's well worth a readers attention.
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Summary: True Tasteless Entertainment
Review: This isn't Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson crooning a dedication to "All the Women I've Loved Before," this is vintage hardcore, rotgut Bukowski cascading from vagina to vomit and back again as he recounts stuporous and hilarious encounters, relationships, binges and blowups with anything in a skirt that crosses his path. Rather than tall tales, these might be "broad" tales, as no one could get this drunk and this waylaid so consistently--yet it's all so funny you willingly follow the main character to back-alley bars, in and out of low-rent rooms, and anywhere a willing--and drinking--woman beckons him. True tasteless entertainment.
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Summary: Not for the faint of heart
Review: First off, this book will offend people. It will probably offend you. You need to be offended. You need to be shaken out of your complacency. You need to be smacked upside the head with the crude and vulgar beauty of Bukowski's life and prose. You should get an injection of his drunken, debauched lifestyle. You should read this book. This is the first Bukowski novel that I have read, on a recommendation from a friend. The man has a way with words. A true Hemingway in the way he gives insightful and penetrating descriptions of people, but never actually tells you what they are thinking. He is able to paint a deep character profile of all the many women in his life with a little dialogue and some crazy actions. Some may find it degrading towards women, but I don't feel that it is. Sure, he is sometimes crude, sometimes angry, sometimes insulting towards women, but he is equally so towards himself. If anything, I feel he shows the tragic sexual immaturity of both women and men. While his lifestyle may be on the extreme, and something that most of us have never even gotten close to, he demonstrates things that anyone who has been in a relationship can identify with. All in all, I don't think Bukowski was writing a book about relationships that people would identify with. That is far too cheesy and mid '90s flaky for him. I think this was more just a painful self-evisceration. I think he was tearing himself open, and laughing about it, and proudly showing off his darkest, and also his most beautiful, thoughts, actions, and emotions.
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Summary: women
Review: this is one of the funniest books i've ever read. it is also the one that introduced me to bukowski. he doesn't waste words on describing scenes--just hammers you with vulgarity and anger and humor that gave me perma-grin for days. chinaski falls in and out with women, almost by accident. he pushes women away, then rebounds, chasing them. falling into depression and spilling angst. still, somewhere in his head, thinking tomorrow might bring a big score at the track. henry chinaski may not understand women, but he is painted well in this novel.
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