Hi folks,
I live in Sydney, Australia, and am now retired after too many decades in the IT game.
I had never heard of Buk until about a year ago when I bought a copy of Barfly from a $5 bin amongst a bunch of other stuff. I was wowed by that film, not so much for Mickey Rourke's acting but the subject matter. I don't drink much at all these days but as a twentysomething I spent far too much time and money in sleazy bars and encountered most of the character types portrayed in the movie. I recall one guy in particular who could have been Buk himself: a dishevelled alcoholic for sure and a brawler, but certainly no writer -- other than perhaps on the back of toilet doors.
Anyway, as fate would have it, not long after spinning up Barfly, public service TV showed Born Into This, so next day I went to the bookstore and bought a pile of Buk's stuff -- poetry and novels -- put them aside on my unread pile and promptly forgot about them.
Last month I was tidying up my study/library when I found the file of Bukowski and started reading it. Hopped onto the Net to find out more about him and found this Forum. So here I am.
I live in Sydney, Australia, and am now retired after too many decades in the IT game.
I had never heard of Buk until about a year ago when I bought a copy of Barfly from a $5 bin amongst a bunch of other stuff. I was wowed by that film, not so much for Mickey Rourke's acting but the subject matter. I don't drink much at all these days but as a twentysomething I spent far too much time and money in sleazy bars and encountered most of the character types portrayed in the movie. I recall one guy in particular who could have been Buk himself: a dishevelled alcoholic for sure and a brawler, but certainly no writer -- other than perhaps on the back of toilet doors.
Anyway, as fate would have it, not long after spinning up Barfly, public service TV showed Born Into This, so next day I went to the bookstore and bought a pile of Buk's stuff -- poetry and novels -- put them aside on my unread pile and promptly forgot about them.
Last month I was tidying up my study/library when I found the file of Bukowski and started reading it. Hopped onto the Net to find out more about him and found this Forum. So here I am.
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