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I enjoyed the Pleasants bio when I read it (and even defended it in a piece I wrote), but at this point I have to wonder how much of it comes from the imaginary land between his floppy pink ears. The guy appears to have a badly distorted view of reality and it's hard to take anything he says or...

...hills - mockingbird wish me luck - dangling in the tournefortia the letters, yes! definitely! (I enjoyed Vol 2 the most = 'Living on Luck' but having all three is no mistake.) Avoid Pleasants' book at least untill you've read some well researched biography, e.g. the one by Howard...

...it's what a literary bio ought to be; it places the work in the context of the man and his times. And finally, I'm into the (GASP!) PLEASANTS bio because he devotes an entire chapter to My Man Mullinax and another entire chapter to that born rebel and anti-hero, none other than Choir Boy...

Sorry folks, but Dan Fante has no credibility based on this biographical blurb written by BEN PLEASANTS. Are readers supposed to think "WOW, WHAT A LIFE THAT FANTE KID HAD"? He's barely (not barley) been scratched. "...Maybe that's why Dan Fante left Malibu when he was nineteen, hit...

Next! VISCERAL BUKOWSKI by Ben Pleasants. An absolute must read!

...Howard Sounes. 1998. Great stuff and best biography out there. 12) VISCERAL BUKOWSKI: INSIDE THE SNIPER LANDSCAPE OF L.A. WRITERS. Ben Pleasants. 2004. A memoir/expose/biography by everyone's favourite Bukster. Bwahahahaha. 13) THE HOLY GRAIL: CHARLES BUKOWSKI AND THE SECOND COMING...

I think the Genet claim was from the late 60's, but it was first printed in that LA Times article by Pleasants.

If you read the 1970 Pleasants piece on Bukowski in the Unpublished/Uncollected forum, you'll see he mentions the famous Genet claim. Apparently, that was the first article ever mentioning the Genet claim. Pleasants says that Bukowski had told him so while drunk. Then he -B- read the article and...

Have spent all day with the Ben Pleasants Biography of Charles Bukowski. As far as I know Ben is the only guy to have bothered to interview Harold ("I'm an Episcopalian choir boy") Mortenson and William ("The neighbourhood has turned" and "I felt up Jane") Mullinax. Baldy died in the 80s and...

...the only TRUE biography, the rest being mostly self-serving memoirs. Actually, GAYLORD (his real name) Brewer wrote a fine literary biography, but he left out all the funny parts. No pics of Madonna in either Sounes, Pleasants or Harrison. I seem to have lost the thread of this...

This may be in the wrong thread, but as good an actor as Penn is, I prefer Rourke as a person because he's a working-class stiff who came up from nowhere. From Brooklyn. Penn is the Beverly Hills-bred rich son of a famour director and actress. Rourke: From the Streets. Penn: Rich kid...

a wild guess (because of the pleasants reference/hint) i've never seen the book nor do i care to and , yeah i beat the bitch so what

yeh yeh yeh, but where did these pics appear? Pleasants would know it ;)

Let me guess, it was written by Ben Pleasants, and claimed that Hunter Thompson sacrificed and ate newborn babies that he bought in the Philippines...

...with an introduction by Ben Pleasants and Victoria Gureyeva!

Who? - Pleasants? ;)

Nope, not Micheline or Pleasants (who's he? ;)) either...

That was where Pleasants first published his claims.

Ben Pleasants!

...started only now, because of the actions to preserve the building. But in Germany the discussion started earlier, it came up, right when Pleasants posted his article (even before his book). Maybe because we're over-sensible on this subject here. There was a hard-and-heavy discussion at one of...

...lawyer would cry Nazi is not the first thing that I would have expected. It may not have occurred to me at all, since I discount everything Pleasants says, types or thinks, and he is the only person who holds that view. So I don't blame that, specifically, on the preservation effort. But -...

...hardly matter because it's so easy for anybody interested to check out the facts. More likely, Buk will be remembered for the booze-hound womanizing image he created... Exactly! We can't just ignore it. If us Buk readers won't point out the idiocy of Pleasants nazi accusation, then nobody...

...went through today, and the commission practically laughed that lawyer out of the room. Before he even spoke I had already discredited Pleasants thoroughly, and since that was all he had it was unconvincing to say the least. The president made it abundantly clear that she didn't believe a...

...isn't out there won't do us any good. Refuting it probably won't do any good either (you can see that even posters in this forum believe Pleasants' story without question because, hey, it's on the internet!), but if we here are the only ones who attempt to point out the idiocy of Pleasants'...