Recent content by Stellaover40

I thought! Not beeing very intelligent myself, I guess (but rather educated), that an advanced writingtechnique is an result of education rather than a measurement of intelligens. And - is it easier to write simple?(I'm asking as I'm no writer at all). Is the substance and content of Bukowskis...

Would he even bother to go through the effort of an IQ-test. If he had to of some reason, would he bother to make his best? He probably wouldn`t try. Intelligently enough.

The first novelbook I read was South of no North. Still my favourite novel is Pittsburgh Phil & com. It appealed to me and I practicly crawled on the floor of the bus Laughing. Trying not to show myself. In sweden you don`t laugh by yourself in public places unless youre a bit unsaine. Bukowski...

He, he! ÃŒt's rather awful I think. Looks more like a neihbour of mine, than Bukowski.

Any Swedish female bukfans around?

Hello Rob! Wellcome. I'm very new here also. Read Bukowski for the first time a few months ago. Now I`m going through all his shortstories. Read the biography and finished it just now. It's so sick. I never knew him and yet it broke my heart reading the end and words on his grave - "don`t try"...

Just ordered it! Looking forward to see it - good or bad.

He puts words on how I feel myself many times. It makes me feel painfully inspired to get something out. Unfortunatly I`m no writer. I`m a painter though - and he inspires me to be more bold and true in my expressions.

Thanks! Thanks for the wellcoming words! :) Stella.

Hello! I had this horrible depressing day, and went in to the pocketbookshop in Stockholms central station. I saw the frontpage of some translated Bukowskibooks ( never heard of him before, uneducated as i am in the field), but fell for his and his ladies very human and unpretentious looks. I...