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Post Office

Post Office by Charles Bukowski

September 7, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

For good reason, a lot of people hate this book, and Charles Bukowski at large. The book is very hateable for a lot of reasons. It’s often misogynistic, slightly less so racist, but still plenty. The main character is a real piece of shit. He rapes someone in the first third of a novel, and it’s almost but not quite played for laughs. And at the very least he’s incredibly grotesque. At the same time, rereading this, especially in audiobook form, I get more about […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Charles Bukowski

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:515 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Charles Bukowski ·
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Don’t Let Bukowski Near Your Ass

Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Charles Bukowski

April 24, 2022 by esmemoria 1 Comment

there’s only one poet in this room tonight only one poet in this town tonight maybe only one real poet in this country tonight and that’s me – Charles Bukowski in Raymond Carver’s poem “You Don’t Know What Love Is.” Charles Bukowski was a prolific poet, an inveterate drunk and womanizer, and a purveyor of both bleak truth and flaming bullshit. As I’ve mentioned in other reviews, I can’t claim to be a sophisticated reader of poetry. There is a lot of poetry that I […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Charles Bukowski

esmemoria's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: Charles Bukowski ·
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