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So by now it's pretty obvious that I haven't seen Dead Poets Society. Should have checked into that earlier.

Thanks for the in-depth reply, Purple Stickpin. I found an auction on ebay a few days ago, a collection of 10 books, which I hope I win. It contains several of the books you mentioned, as well as a few repeats of what I already have. Suppose I could try to get somebody else into Bukowski by...

You have all been very helpful. Could I get some more words of advice? I know that his newer poetry collections are all mostly rehashed from his older ones. Would it be best to go out and get copies of the ones released in the 70s?

It's not so much that I want to come up with a doctoral thesis based around the life of Bukowski. It's that now that I've been in college for 6 years now and have decided that all I really want to do with my life is be a writer, I need something to show for the past few rings around the sun and...

Hello all, I'm a new user to the site, and a (relatively) new fan of Bukowski. I discovered his works about 4 years ago when a friend of mine suggested that I read Post Office. It took me 3 years to get through the novel, but once I finished it, I read Ham on Rye, Women, and Factotum within...