I would argue, having read In Watermelon Sugar, A Confederate General From Big Sur, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, The Hawkline Monster, Dreaming of Babylon, the majority of The Abortion: An Historical Romance, and several Bukowski books (Women, Factotum, Ham On Rye and Post Office), that Bukowski and Brautigan are very similar. Bukowski always preached about short descriptions where each line was filled with 'juice.' I don't know if anyone else agrees, but hardly anything would better describe Brautigan's prose than short lines filled with juice. They are opposites—in a sense—when it comes to the content in which they write. Brautigan's books are very disconnected from reality while Bukowski's are strictly about reality.anyone read any of his stuff? almost the antithesis of bukowski.