Where to start with this motherfricker?
>Pulp
>Ham On Rye
>Women
>Post Office
These are arguably his most mentioned books but equally so, so I don't know where to start. I'm thinking of Post Office because it's about him working at a post office, right? I have no idea what the others are about. What are his novels like anyways? Any advice?
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Read Ham On Rye and you'll realize the dude's an unlikable idiotic motherfricker like any of the ones you'd find out there doing crack a 3 AM. Unless you like that kind of people, Bukowski is really bad
>dude's an unlikable idiotic motherfricker
I imagine anybody who likes Bukowski likes him because they are like him. You should not want to be like that, and if you are like that you should want to change
They are all the same thing. I’ve read them all and if you gave me a random one and let me read twenty pages I couldn’t tell you which I was reading to save my life.
Tired of hearing how depressed alcoholic degenerates are somehow supposed to be full of profound insights about how I should live my life.
Granted, I haven't read anything by him.
Him and Burroughs are the only disernable talents of the so called "Beats". Don't let entryist homosexuals turn you off a good thing sure he paved the way for heavily enjambled Rupi Kauer shit, but it's got some experience behind it at least America's other Austrian derived author of note aside Plath.
>discernable talent
>writes disposable books and furthers the continued debasement of poetry as an art
Bukowski is shit and every pseud poet I knew liked him a lot.
>Granted, I haven't read anything by him.
I feel like this should be automatically tagged onto every post on IQfy
Early couple poetry volumes and the short stories. The novels are generally just bloated versions of shit already in those.
Post office imo and if you dig, go whichever direction you preffer.
>Pulp
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That is possibly the worst book ever written. Start with Ham on Rye.
Bukowski didn't write for any of you gays. The academics got a hold of his work, but he wrote for people like him, losers, degenerates, deadbeats, and bums. He never tried to write flowery prose because that wasn't the point. Rupi Kaur is similar, but Bukowski actually had an interesting perspective. He was a part of a world where talent was rare and he used what little he had to bring it alive. Kaur peddles bullshit where half the selling point is shitty doodles to housewives who want an artistic reflection of their vacuous lives.
I thought e.e. coomings was the originator of the style of poetry that led to Rupi Kaur
Read on writing you illiterate Black folk
Don’t try
I started with Factotum and it seems to have been a pretty reasonable place.
Then again the only other thing I‘ve read were a few selections from WMMIHYWTTF
On cats seems cute but I think I'll read Post Office and Ham On Rye as a primer.
By being an gross depressed woman. If a man likes Bukowski he he's hopeless.
Anon, your ESL is showing.
His works I liked most by order:
>poetry
>Ham on Rye
>Post Office
>short stories (Notes of a dirty old man, Tales of Ordinary Madness)
I can understand if Buk does not tickle your sensitive sensibilities, but his style and humour that shines through makes him highly entertaining. Just my 2c.
The guy invented the term beershit, have some god damn respect.
Post Office and Ham in Rye are the best.
They don’t take long to read
He sounds based to me honestly. If he makes so many of you gays mald so fricking hard he must have some merit.
The notes of a dirty old man is one of my favorite fiction of all time.
Women is his best, Ham on Rye and Factotum are so similar and kinda dull but ok. When you've read one Bukowski, you've read them all.
Hollywood is complete shit though.
Charles Bukowski is a troony. Peak female psyche. Everybody begins by being female. Men have the female spirit in a male body.
This is why men keep putting women on pedestal. Men live to compete and provide for women.
The ideal life for a man is to have the life of a woman: just by existing, coasting thru life, being adorned by numerous female orbiters devoted to him. But still wanting to give lots of free orgasms to every female simping for him KEK.
This makes 99% of the population female in mind and 50% female in body. Only very very few men manage to escape the female condition.
You've just reminded me of the greatest disparity between man and woman God ever cursed upon humanity: the inability for a man to cum multiple times in a row. I don't know how women don't just stay at home jerking off all day. If I was a chick I would be addicted for sure. God does have His graces, I suppose.
The Genius Of The Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day
and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love
beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect
like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock
their finest art
This rings true on some anons in this thread.
I feel like he would really hate the homosexuals infesting society these days but idk I haven't read him (yet)