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You might like this?: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/2009/03/000000_worldbookclub.shtml Merry Xmas :)

Buk No Alcoholic Great thread. Buk was a functioning drunk! He self medicated and it saved him, inspired him, fed him. As a young man it must have really helped after his upbringing with that cun* of an old man.... In the UK there has always been a drinking culture. The restriction on too...

Great thread Guys...v interesting.....

Bukowski inspires lots to TRY and write. His simple style is not, in reality, that simple. Nothing is new.... try and use his style then find your own.

God that neandathal is an ugly cunt!

Buk was brave enough to choose poverty. It wasn't an economic cyclical thing to him. He escaped the rat race but lived meagrely. His parents had this posh bungalow with well manicured lawns, a hellhouse emblem to the neighbourhood. Buk refuted that lifestyle. His sensitivity, his grace his...

Spot on Carversdog...... 'He had more in common with Bukowski's aesthetic than one might realize at first blush, he simply studied a different social strata than Bukowski but the end results were often the same.' __________________ So very true...... would be interested to have some evidence...

Of course, they should have got someone to read Born Into This. [edit: Dinosauria, We] Given the state of the economy etc etc....... :cool::cool::cool: the fingers reach for the bottle the pill the powder we are born into this sorrowful deadliness we are born into a government 60 years...

Why??? Why am I reading this thread????

So true.... and written in a modern form. It would be great to see more.

All the humanity I knew Bukowski had, symbolised in the present of his shirt. He would have been so proud of Linda.

Halle-fucking-lujah!!!! Didn't we know this? Academic Wobegone thoughts..........

Guerilla Propmen then? :):):)

'Locked in the arms....' Thanks for the advice FL re: 'Locked in the arms of a Crazy life' The interesting quote from Buk's wife Linda Lee: 'It's a very veiled sort of thing... (Buk's relationship with his mother....' barely there.....' It also says Buk never dwelt on his feeling for...

Buk's Mother. I know there's a lot written about Buk's relationship with his Father and all their fights, his Father pretending to be the author of one of his written works... And I know his Mother often sided with the old man against Buk..... Is there any evidence of a warm relationship...