Recent content by Dreed

Try this.... After reading all of these posts regarding punk and attitude etc. at least some of you admit that it is music that Buk probably would have hated - personally - though he MAY have appreciated it's place in music history. Or not. Who knows what he would have said. -- But my bigger...

nope - it won't ruin it at all. A lot of times you'll find yourself going "what the hell is he saying???" and the notes tend to "translate" the Joyce into a comprehensible nugget. BUT: it's the music of the language and the images, the mythology, the humor, the pornography of the book that...

Joyce Proust Aurobindo Buk - needless to say Flannery O'Connor Shakespeare - sorry but it's true bunches of dead poets I don't have the time or energy to write down these make the list because after reading one thing by them, I wanted to read another

good name - if memory serves, Gregor Samsa was in Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' and if not, I can blame the booze for faulty thinking. So....what is it in Polish and how is it pronounced?

Rob: sounds like you're on your way - good for you. Post Office was my first - after that it's a blur - just kept buying and reading. Check out the letters - many are long prose poems - simply stunning. When you run across music references, go find the work he mentions, have a few drinks and...

Nice to find a Bukowski forum that is alive and well. I "found" or "discovered" Buk the long way around, I suppose.....After reading all of Joyce - yeah, even Finnegans Wake - and all of Proust and being a huge fan of classical music - I honestly can't fucking remember HOW I finally stumbled...

I strongly recommend reading Ulysses and giving yourself enough time to really focus on it. One very important thing to keep in mind is that Joyce had(has) a great sense of humor and at times can be very dirty - which is also hilarious. Some folks think a big, hard to understand book has to be...