I'm just reading Post Office and Factotum for the first time and enjoying them a lot. There's a matter-of-fact quality to these books that reminds me of a Japanese book called A Man with No Talents. Written by a guy who started out with a university education and working for a big corporation while in his 20s but couldn't hack it and ended up working as a day laborer for years while living in a dormitory in working class Tokyo.
Not as many laughs as Bukowski, but there is some overlap there because, like Buk, he's a loner who can't bear all the bullshit of regular society. Bukowski fans might enjoy it so I thought I'd post some links.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780801443756-1
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4352
Not as many laughs as Bukowski, but there is some overlap there because, like Buk, he's a loner who can't bear all the bullshit of regular society. Bukowski fans might enjoy it so I thought I'd post some links.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780801443756-1
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4352