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These essays don't alter my opinion of Buk in any way. Nor do they diminish the fact that he was a very talented writer. (Would it really matter that much if he wrote other people's anecdotes into his works?) I didn't find much jealousy or pettiness in the first essay. It was coherent and had a...

i'm trying to remember the name of a buk poem i read a few years ago. there was a line in it that was something like, "chaos, all there was was chaos." or something like that. any help would be appreciated.

Based on what Buk wrote in other books, we know that Henry Chinaski is ugly (at least conveniontally speaking). The subject isn't featured prominently in Factotum, but it is mentioned: Gertrude moved her body to the music, moved her head to the music, and looked into my eyes. "You have a...

I just finished watching a pirated copy of the movie Factotum. I'm glad I watched a pirated copy because I would have been even more disappointed had I actually paid to watch it. The movie was very empty. If you had not read the book previously I don't even know why you would have watched it or...

frist off, let me say that this is an interesting post. for me, buk is not a beat writer for the simple reason that he wasn't part of that movement. end of story. however, i suppose an argument can be made that his style was that of a beat. but i don't really see this. if anything, bukowski was...

actually i just read "genius of the crowd" --well reread to be more accurate (i had read it previously several years ago)--and i feel compelled to say that that is precisedly the type of stuff that makes bukowski great. now that is a poem. it isnt merely an anecdote, or how he's up at 4am...

well it seems that i've stirred something up around here a little. i guess i'm not surprised. anyways, i just want to make it clear that i don't believe dylan was a better artist than buk. the two can't truely be compared. however, to address the notion that lyrics and poetry are vastly...

sorry if i was glib you're probably right there. i shouldn't have underestimated the intelligence of the people on this forum. and for that, i am sorry. all i meant was that it seems that some people here, defintely not all or even the majority for that matter, seem to idolize him without...

bukowski only human i'm a fan of bukowski's writing. i admire the way he was honest and simple and not full of too much shit (although every writer is). but what i realize is that the man was only human. some people on this forum speak as though he were the second coming of jesus or something...