>>25355245
Just read his poems instead.

>>25355245
God damn heels are so sexy I wish women wore them more

>>25355245
No clue, haven't read it. Have read Post Office, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Hot Water Music though, wanted to read three books so I could get the picture. I don't enjoy Bukowski but I see why people like him. He's sleazy, easy, dirty, piggish, and simultaneously humane, sensitive, wounded. You're probably in for a lot of fucking and a lot of woman hate. (I'll just be honest, the constant woman hating in Bukowski is just fucking grating. It's all drunk leers and catcalls you'd hear outside a bar. I get that this is part of the appeal for some people, but much like the bar, I don't want to hear it for too long.)
>>25355248
He's got like maybe 10 or 15 good poems out of thousands, stand outside in a thunderstorm often enough and eventually you'll get struck by lightning I guess

>>25355261
>He's got like maybe 10 or 15 good poems out of thousands
You haven't read thousands of his poems, anon.

>>25355271
It's not that hard to read ~2,000 of his poems, he wrote 40 odd books of poetry and most of it's online, in libraries, wherever. They're short and they go down quick. You Get So Alone / Love Is A Dog From Hell / Burning In Water Drowning In Flame are probably the best

>>25355245
Really not the Bukowski to start with. Basically he spent about thirty years in poverty and obscurity with most women obviously not wanting to know him. Then he gets famous and suddenly he has dozens of college-age girls throwing themselves at him. And his basic attitude is, "where the hell were you when I was 25, horny and starving? I was just as much a genius then as now." That's this book.

Better to read the earlier books first. This one is written in the light of those and he sort of assumes the reader has read those too.

>>25355245
I always find it strange when anon's get offended over the non-rape scene at the begining of Post Office with the BPD woman, but no one bats an eye to the horrorific anal rape scene in Women, which is played for laughs.

>>25355245
Tryhard garbage that redditors will claim is super deep and introspective because dude le alcoholism dude le hookers

>>25355245
I love Buk, but this is my least favorite of his works. It's just 300 pages of him being this superstar writer and talking about the attractive women he fucked. I prefer the novels where he's a fucking loser, and he talks about the busted women he fucked.

>>25355245
>if a woman sleeps with me she's a whore
>if a woman doesn't sleep with me she's still a whore but also a bitch
>I'm drunk
there, now you don't have to read it. Read Ham on Rye instead

shit