Ham on Rye

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Summary: INTENSE...
Review: Ham On Rye explores the brutal, brooding and sexual life of low income post depression teenage existence. Charles Bukowski has developed a unique but Hemingway like writing style that is short, direct and insightful. All in all a great read.

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Summary: You really haven't read anything, till you've read Bukowski
Review: Ham on Rye really knocked me over. His writing is so powerful that a simple sentence, placed in the context he creates, gets you right in the center of your being. It cuts through your soul. It reaches down to your guts and twists them around.

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Summary: This is the finest novel by one of America's great writers
Review: Ham on Rye is the finest novel by one of America's greatest writers. It is hillarious, sad, devastating and right on the money about growing up an outsider. This is a must read for anyone interested in 20th century American literature.

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Summary: The school was like the world!
Review: I do not know who said that we are always what we are back in our school times. Anyway, Bukowski shows that the road to a low reputation, loneliness, freakness, poverty and other common problems already starts in a classroom. And he does it by, at the same time, giving us the feeling that the "winners" are not that worthy of envy. Just be yourself: you will be defeated when you think : "I want to be like them". Again, Buk, thanks, I'll have one on ya tonight!

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Summary: bukowski's very best
Review: "ham on rye" is bukowski at his devastatingly hilariously funny, top of the line best

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Summary: Bukowski's best.
Review: "Ham on Rye" is Charles Bukowski at his devastatingly funny best. The novel tells us the story of Chinaski's/Bukowski's first 20 or so years and it does so in a way which leaves nothing to be desired. A must for any reader.

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Summary: raw pain
Review: ham on rye is bukowski at his best. this is because it deals with the best material he has to draw from: his formative years. here is the coming of age story of the town drunk. we find that there are sides to both love and hate about this man. bukowski gives us a lesson on how a hard boiled egg is made.

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Summary: Simple humor for such a complicated life
Review: Bukowski reminds us that even in the darkest moments of existence, humor can even be found in a life surrounded with dysfunction

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Summary: Crazy, strange, but typical story of a boy's adolescence.
Review: What else is there to say? It's hilarious

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Summary: Guess whether CB had a happy or sad childhood.
Review: Ding!Ding!Ding! Correct! Charles Bukowski recalls his childhood in the book that the widest audience can enjoy--this book has a clarity and sensitivity not present in his other books without compromising his ideas. One favorite scene-- God comes to his bed at night-- in a black hood and with cold, unfeeling eyes. He stares at him for a while then dissapears.