The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories

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Summary: The most Beautiful Girl in town and other stories
Review: This is I belive Bukowski's best collection of short stories. it truely displays his insane genius that all his true fans love

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Summary: Silly, Amaturish, "Most Beautiful" typifies poor writing
Review: To suggest these works well or even moderately well written is to confuse the issues we have judged to be important in good writing. Burkowski has an obvious gift for crafting fine sentences, and to construct tales directly from life experience or perceived life experience is a beautiful thing, but not to spend even a moment making any sense of or trying to understand these experiences proves a true lack of insight. Semi-literate six year olds, lost in a chaotic twirl of inchoate thoughts and ramblings are capable of the same. All of this is not even to mention the trite, ridiculous heart that palps pitifully within each of these ill-considered works. Literature is more than this! For those who believe there is genuine meaning in organized human expression for the sake of communication, please do not be midlead by these silly stories.

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Summary: easy to read, dirty stories but funny
Review: Very funny! Women might be disgusted by his description of the sex scenes. The feelings are very real, though some stories about himself, I believe, are faked up - too exaggerated. Want to show book to my kid because the stories are humorous & the way he wrote them is very powerful, but finally not did so, because too obscene.