An absolute masterpiece in my opinion, the amount of simple and straight forward descriptions with such mental imagery makes for a great and full picture . 💯👌🙏
"Was I some kind of an idiot, actually? Did I make things happen to myself? It was possible. It was possible that I was sub normal. That I was lucky just to be alive."
It makes me wanna read again. I used to like to read a lot in my youth, then life cut-up with me.. work, work, work, like dumb ass going no where. Listening is a good start.. I think. ... (o:
Mine and Bukowskis life seem to have a lot in common when it comes to women, work and alcohol. ;) I hate work, love women and alcohol a little bit too much... ;)
Think of all the millennials and gen-Z (the comparatively less brainwashed less-woke among them, at any rate) whom although unaware of the comedic value of Bukowski's books, would nonetheless discover they really enjoy his work and find it entertaining. Young people don't read enough paper books of pre-modern 20th century authors. Bukowski teaches people that books can indeed be genuinely amusing and Charles Bukowski is almost a genre unto himself. I am a millennial myself, but I fear the pattern is one of widespread poor taste in art and entertainment among the youth. The kids nowadays are dumb as hell. Our customs and standards in the West of otherwise healthy young ppl showing due appreciation and awareness of our great American authors is disappearing more and more with each passing generation. I can tell you for a certainty that many of them don't even know who Hemingway or Bukowski even are, and it's not in my opinion, asking too much for them to know about and appreciate our cultural icons of a not too distant semi-modern past. Authors like these are part of the unique American pop-culture and beatnik literary phase following the turn of the century, and represent superior art of a better time, comparatively speaking. If we can't have a healthy folk culture as a country, then at least we have strange amusing artists and thinkers like Charles Bukowski during these declining and decadent days of the failing West. We're in decline because we've turned from the foundations that made our civilization's great art and higher consciousness possible.
Your complaint about kids not being taught Hemingway and Bukowski has nothing to do with ‘woke ideology’ and everything to do with plummeting standards and funding in the American public education system - 20% of adult Americans are illiterate. Bettering the standard of public education is a consistent priority of people you might consider ‘woke’, so you might have more in common with them than you think!
Not impressed, hard to believe I finished the book honestly. The main character seems to be an uninteresting POS obsessed with drink and women which gets dull very fast in a book. Writing style is also very dull like an average high-school student doing a mediocre job. 3ish/10. Bukowski not for everyone I suppose
An absolute masterpiece in my opinion, the amount of simple and straight forward descriptions with such mental imagery makes for a great and full picture . 💯👌🙏
I really relate to his soul.
"Was I some kind of an idiot, actually? Did I make things happen to myself? It was possible. It was possible that I was sub normal. That I was lucky just to be alive."
It makes me wanna read again. I used to like to read a lot in my youth, then life cut-up with me.. work, work, work, like dumb ass going no where. Listening is a good start.. I think. ... (o:
It's never too late to fall in love with reading again. This book and this man helped me do so. 🕊️🍻
Mine and Bukowskis life seem to have a lot in common when it comes to women, work and alcohol. ;)
I hate work, love women and alcohol a little bit too much... ;)
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Think of all the millennials and gen-Z (the comparatively less brainwashed less-woke among them, at any rate) whom although unaware of the comedic value of Bukowski's books, would nonetheless discover they really enjoy his work and find it entertaining. Young people don't read enough paper books of pre-modern 20th century authors. Bukowski teaches people that books can indeed be genuinely amusing and Charles Bukowski is almost a genre unto himself.
I am a millennial myself, but I fear the pattern is one of widespread poor taste in art and entertainment among the youth. The kids nowadays are dumb as hell. Our customs and standards in the West of otherwise healthy young ppl showing due appreciation and awareness of our great American authors is disappearing more and more with each passing generation. I can tell you for a certainty that many of them don't even know who Hemingway or Bukowski even are, and it's not in my opinion, asking too much for them to know about and appreciate our cultural icons of a not too distant semi-modern past. Authors like these are part of the unique American pop-culture and beatnik literary phase following the turn of the century, and represent superior art of a better time, comparatively speaking. If we can't have a healthy folk culture as a country, then at least we have strange amusing artists and thinkers like Charles Bukowski during these declining and decadent days of the failing West. We're in decline because we've turned from the foundations that made our civilization's great art and higher consciousness possible.
Your complaint about kids not being taught Hemingway and Bukowski has nothing to do with ‘woke ideology’ and everything to do with plummeting standards and funding in the American public education system - 20% of adult Americans are illiterate. Bettering the standard of public education is a consistent priority of people you might consider ‘woke’, so you might have more in common with them than you think!
Not impressed, hard to believe I finished the book honestly. The main character seems to be an uninteresting POS obsessed with drink and women which gets dull very fast in a book. Writing style is also very dull like an average high-school student doing a mediocre job. 3ish/10. Bukowski not for everyone I suppose
Her ass was big, her tits were big and she was big in all the right places… tfym not impressed
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