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Hollywood
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 1989
Entertaining but not his Best
I'm not sure exactly what to say about Hollywood. I certainly enjoyed it and always appreciate Bukowski at some level. In terms of his novels, I'd place this one behind Factotum, Post Office, and Women. Ham and Rye I have not yet read but will...unlike Pulp (whose ...
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Women: A Novel
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2007
A Raucous Good Time
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R27PF6CT4ON2CQ This book is a jolly good time and I hope you like the review.
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You Get So Alone at Times
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2002
Golden Years Epiphanies
Success and acclaim might damage some artists. They had the opposite effect on Bukowski. Once he felt he was getting the recognition he deserved, a lot of the bitter hatefulness fell away, and his brilliance grew brighter. This volume goes well with "The Last Night of ...
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Charles Bukowski
City Lights Publishers, 2001
Chuck's more than just booze, sex and horses
This is the fourth Bukowski novel I have read after Women, Hollywood and Post Office. It is essentially a collection of vignettes written for the CITY PRESS which was an underground newspaper in the late 60's where Bukowski was given more or less carte blanche to ...
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
Charles Bukowski
City Lights Publishers, 2001
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Charles Bukowski, brutally honest, as usual. This book was pretty good but not as good as his poetry.
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Ham on Rye: A Novel
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2007
Great work from a disciplined writer
At times in his life, Charles Bukowski may have lived like the dissolute Hank Chinaski, his alcoholic protagonist in post office: A Novel, Factotum, Women: A Novel, and HAM ON RYE. But in reading HoR, the quality that communicated most clearly to this reader was Buk's ...
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Love is a Dog From Hell
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2002
The laughter of the mutilated who still need love
It's hard to think of a person less likely to
achieve posthumous fame than Charles Bukowski.
His poems don't scan or rhyme, they're imposs-
ible to memorize and the stories that they
tell repeat themselves like a whisky drinker
around 1:30 in the morning. In ...
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Factotum
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2002
A Tour of Bohemia
I just finished rereading Women two days ago and rebreezed through Factotum today. Between the two it's hard to say which one I enjoy more. The one thing for certain is that Factotum is a not-so-guilty pleasure. For L7 square types like me, it's fun to careen through ...
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Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 19441990
Charles Bukowski
City Lights Publishers, 2008
For Fanatics Only
This isn't for a beginner or a casual fan of Bukowski. If your like me though and have read everything you can by Bukowski and want more, than this is your next step. This book is a nice collection of Bukowski stories that for one reason or another haven't made mass ...
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post office: A Novel
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2007
Bukowski was a funny guy!
Out of what I've read by Bukowski at this point in time (I've only read four of his books as of today) I would rank this and Ham on Rye as his best.
Most of Post Office revolves around his two stints as a Postal Worker, boozing, gambling, relationships with women ...
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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2002
Old Man Poet
This is one of the best collections of poetry that I have ever read. I've recently discovered Bukowski after having one of my poems compared to his work. I did some research and a lot of people told me to start with this book. I am so glad that I did because it was a ...
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The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2002
Death is smoking my cigars...
...and.....
The piano has been drinking
My necktie's asleep
The combo went back to New York, and left me all alone
The jukebox has to take a leak
Have you noticed that the carpet needs a haircut?
And the spotlight looks just like a prison break
And the ...
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
Charles Bukowski
City Lights Publishers, 2001
Spotlight on the seamy side of life
Bukowski tends to, as far as I can tell, polarize readers something fierce. There are those who claim that he belongs among the highest pantheon of American writers for his no holds barred writings and ability to tell it like it is. Others will say that his stories ...
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Pulp
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2002
Bukowski's Swan Song
Bukowski begins the book with a dedication to bad writing... a category that I would not put Pulp into. To read this book and realize Bukowski was as old as he was when he wrote it and that it was his last book, is an amazing thing. I don't understand a single one of ...
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The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2008
And it is the end
Sad to say, this book exhausts the remainder of Buk's poetry. The work is not as strong as earlier books, not as pointed. But as he would have understood, all ends. So what else is new? There are some strong poems: a eulogy, "legs"("she was a great woman/with great ...
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