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gotta say thanks for that recommendation. maybe 1/5 through pamela's and 4/5 linda's. pamela's is an easier and more fun read frankly. but linda's is great too. glad i'm reading them both.

spoiler alert. but thanks, i'll check it out.

Reading Linda King's book now, only like 1/5 through but loving it. Bukowski has frankly been a huge influence on my life. I relate to the way he sees the world and I relate to a lot in this book too. I guess that's why it's good? I've read Women easily a dozen times so it's really...

Bukowski often refers to the "wine" Li Po drank and sometimes even "red wine." I always wondered if this was a translation thing as well, and if closer to what we think of as sake, or some kind of rice wine, would have been more likely.

I picked up on Celine from Bukowski and must say Journey to the End of the Night is probably the best book I have ever read. I have followed up on a lot of the authors Bukowski frequently mentions, but never Turgenev. Basically I am looking for a starting point, anything you'd recommend, or if...

stuck in a plane for 12 hours I watched bit of a really awful Christmas movie starring Vince Vaughn (as Santa Claus' brother). In one scene he refers to his girlfriend by her full name, (something) Bukowski. I thought hmm, I could see Vince Vaughn being a fan and making an intentional...

Thanks. There is an amazing-looking interview on youtube with him, I think from 1957? Obviously in French so I just watched a bit. Anyway I couldn't sleep last night and was up around 6:30 reading Journey, decided to try Guignol's Band next. It's on order, so I'll let you know...

If you're on this forum you've probably checked it out via Bukowski's repeated recommendation and citation but GOOD GOD is this a hell of a book. Reading it for the 3rd or 4th time now and there are more darkly hilarious laugh out loud lines than I could ever possibly quote here but just for...

I'm not big on the horse poems, and the poems where he talks about the fact that no one likes his horse poems aren't favorites either. And the ones about cats I'm not so into. I do like that he repeatedly refers to his great legs, and that he liked to drink in his "shorts" in order to show...

RubyRed that's one of my favorites too. Mildot, I have quoted that one in emails to friends before detailing stories of my own idiocies. "love is for guitar players, catholics, and chess freaks" "I don't know what happened to the track star. He just ran off I guess." I love that...

The thread about Bukowski's habits got me thinking. That some people found 7 days a week out of the question was surprising. I've drank every day for a good 10 years now, steadily creeping up from 3-4 to more like 6-7 a day. I don't get drunk or do things I otherwise wouldn't, I'm rarely...

Interesting bit and I can't wait to read the linked Hustler interview, thanks! I think it's pretty standard Bukowski, he relates what happened in an interesting, possibly fictionalized way, but doesn't tell you it's correct or good. The same with women, no? He speaks of and treats them rather...

I don't think most authors would appreciate being thought of as good shitting material, but I read Bukowski on the crapper with an utterly clean conscience.

Strange. http://www.bukowski.jp/ The site seems to reference the man and his work... yet is appears to be a crappy-looking clothing botique...

I spent a lot of time at the big library downtown, checking stuff out and reading whatever held my interest. I worked through the Vonnegut section, just grabbing whatever names other authors references or stuff I had heard about, Satre, Huxley, Bellow, Roth, anything. My friend mentioned...