When I first read him, I screamed: "This Bukowski of the tight and bloody line. I had never been told about him. Why the secret? Why wasn't he advertised?" - And then, this bastard Bukowski came along and used that line in one of his novels!
It started as a mistake...I first read Bukowski around 1976, when my son was born.
I viewed his books as my husband's stuff, along with his drum tobacco, cigarette paper and his heavy consumption of alcohol.
I read a few lines and put it down and most likely said to my partner
"shit, no wonder we're in it knee deep!". I got the "WoW" much later.:o
How about David Barker, and thanks, Stephen, for remembering the ghost of Harry Calhoun. I have been known to do a review now and then, but I didn't do that one. :-)
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