Recent content by jddougher

If you want, sure. Since when did expressing an opinion constitute shitting on a forum? I give up. Plus your attitude stinks. Hopefully you have a moderator or two who can save you from yourself.

Burroughs and the rest of the "beats" were full of horse manure, otherwise known as shit. Any questions?

I must be too drunk, but I can't figure out how to access your work.

Well, it's fun working on one's own finite collection, and the published works are a start (and collecting them all won't cost a king's ransom). After that, one is in the collector's realm, and yes, well, collectors need deep pockets. I like the bendable books because, well, I can bend them.

Wouldn't scanning this and making it available for free be a copyright violation? Scarlet is indeed a (perhaps surprisingly) good book, well worth purchasing. It makes all of the other "I knew Bukowski" books look amateurish in comparison. If you like Bukowski and haven't read this, buy it now.

With Buk's books running $12-$18 a crack, I'd just work on collecting them all. The venture is finite, after all. I notice that you've got only prose on your list. Luck you: the poetry awaits. But The Captain is a personal favorite of mine. I didn't want that one to end.

In an age when everyone's eyes are glued to the screen, I'm not sure what the point of paper-based publishing is any more.

Just finished this novel for the first time, and I was savoring every page. I think this is Hank's best novel. I'm not sure why I waited so long to read it, but it was a joy, especially after the first couple of chapters (which require a good bit of name remembering). Part of the fun of...

I just ordered these. Some people earlier in the thread are mentioning $15. My copy cost me $40, so be happy with anything less these days.

Good to hear about the new poetry coming out. I was wondering whether the stash was exhausted. I read a late interview (2010) with Carl Weissner the other day in which he suggested that all of Buk's stuff had been published. As to Ecco, I quite like the reprints and new books that this company...

I watched Barfly again yesterday but this time the version in which Barbet Schroeder provides commentary, and I found it interesting that Schroeder says it was his idea to introduce the character of Tully into the movie (to provide some tension, I think . I found that interesting on one level...

Thank you for posting this.

lol Does selling anything literary keep anyone going these days? If so, I must have missed that lesson.

My take is that Bukowski was so appreciative of what Martin did for him that he (Bukowski) allowed Martin quite a bit of latitude in changing the work. Also, I think it's important to understand that Bukowski was first and foremost a working writer who was concerned at least in part with getting...