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Summary: Take this to the john instead of the Sunday paper...
Review: This is one of those guilty pleasure books that you don't want your girlfriend or wife to even browse. I have never read anything quite like this that describes the psyche and the secret lust within every man with such economy of words. The author did an incredible job of revealing his subtle musings and emotions from underneath the vulgar and the sordid (and there's so much in the book). Kudos to Bukowski for honestly speaking the mind of the male sex. PS. Jack Nicholson would the perfect candidate to play Henry Chinaski in a possible film version of this novel.
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Summary: I Wish I Knew Charlie
Review: The book is beautifully written. Honesty and inner strength comingle in the telling. I could smell his breath on the pages. It was not pleasant. I don't care about pleasantness or comfort, but many do and consequently gravitate away from this man's art to books that hang like sacks of flour full of mealbugs from the Pulitzer Prize list of winners. I know where to get these things too, but I rarely find honesty and strength in the so-called winners. They are less writers than processors. I do wish so very much to have been one of Bukowski's women, just for the experience.
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Summary: Looking in all the wrong places
Review: As a young man with literary pretensions, I searched far and wide for "serious" literature and stimulation. I waded through Ballard, Heller, Joyce, Vonnegut, Burroughs, various "Beat" literature, classics and any recommendations that came from people I considered more learned than me. I thought I was on a road to realisation, I was becoming more confused.One day I listened to my slack mate Andy, and it took me less than two weeks to read Bukowski's novels in their entirety and I'm frantically working through the rest. Bukowski knows you need look no further than the next day, the next drink or the next woman to have and know all there is in this life. And now so do I. Read this book if you never read another, and if you do, read another Bukowski.
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Summary: whoah better hold on folks...
Review: This book is a roller coaster ride through the dark alleys of relationships. While there is a street lamp of hope here and there most of the time some pretty insane things are going on. If your a fan of bukowski you will like this book. Just don't take it with you to your mothers house.
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Summary: Why does it make so much sense?
Review: This book's narrator is gross, he's nihilistic, he's utterly simple-minded, and yet he somehow makes us wish we had the nerve to mimic him. Bukowski's work has been called "honest," but I would pay "Women" a higher compliment: it holds back just enough of the truth to make us consider it honestly. Why does this filthy tale make so much sense to us (and why is it so much fun)? Precisely because it is so simple and filthy. This book is outside of ambition. There are many of us who feel a moral responsibility to accumulate experience at the cost of comfort; but sometimes we get too lazy to hike through the rain forests or jump out of airplanes. We find a strong, comforting voice in this prose that reminds us of the adventure in the grimy, everyday details. We eat, we sleep, we have sex, we get excited and angry, we get over it, we write and we get by.
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Summary: enter mr. bukowski...
Review: as the first book of charles bukowski's that i ever read, "Women" holds a special place in my heart. it is an insane story of henry chinaski and his misunderstandings and communications with women. autobiographical to an extent, this book, and all of bukowski's, are special because they are so graphically and emotionally honest. no one else paints such candid portraits of the human psyche in its most degenerate and politically incorrect situations. no other author can put so much vulgarity into a work and make it sound as natural as bukowski does. everything and every word in his novels have a place and a meaning, making his writing style so refreshingly satisfying, that you can't help but to live vicariously through his beautiful insanity. "women" introduced me to this great american poet/novelist, and it is my belief that this book definitely makes for a proper introduction to his works.
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Summary: Bukowski was a real man
Review: I read this book by suggestion of my older sister. I thoroughly enjoyed it. In my opinion, Charles Bukowski is one of the few writers of his time period who was not afraid to tell it like it is. He talks about the harsh reality that we all face, without holding back. He does not strive to make the world a fantasyland in which everything is happy and wonderful. I am a woman, and I am not at all offended by this book...it is the sad truth that most men would love to live such an existence as he did. Bukowski admits to his feelings, and shares his deepest fears with the reader. No other author of the time had enough ..... to do that, and not many, even now, do. I am sorry that Charles Bukowski is dead...the day he died, we lost a great and honest man...I would have loved to have met him...
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Summary: dasy duke revenge
Review: see ken is a real women and the green plate watering can serial aaa battering stag
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Summary: It's great and then you grow up
Review: When I was 16-18, Bukowski was my and my fellow pranksters (hello Cindy, Mike, etc.) primary insipration. This text is arguably Bukowski's best with "Ham on Rye" coming in at a close second. What do you get? Self-deprecation and community college-level prose on the women Bukowski wished he had sexual intercourse with. Race tracks, alcohol, classical music, women, bad poetry, and an inability to keep a steady job. It doesn't get much deeper than that. Some will argue that Bukowski brought vulgar prose to the proletariat. To those, I would recommend Celine who preceded Bukowski, and in my opinion does Bukowski much better than Bukowski. These days if I get a hankering to read Bukowski, I pick up Henry Miller. Miller's more real and has a bit more romanticism, intelligence, and edge than Buk. Perhaps it's myself slipping into the dreaded state of maturity, but Buk just doesn't have the visceral, bleeding-at-the-veins feeling he had when I first read him at 16. Women with odd-shaped vaginas and the joy of a good bowel movement doesn't do much for me these days.
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Summary: so many women, so little plot.
Review: Take out 70 pages and you got a really good book. I liked the true-to-his-awful-self-attitute of Chinaski that is again present in this book. He has good moments and others not so good. Overall is good prose. Fun. Easy to read. Entertaining but it thoes tend to be repetitive. If you already love chinaski you'll now he's got better stuff. If you don't know him. You can start with this one.
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