i'm new here so i don't know if there is already a thread about this. I was just wondering if you could only read one bukowski book for the rest of your life what would it be? personally i'd have to go with either "Ham on rye" or "last night of the earth poems" . i would choose "ham on rye" because i identify strongly with young bukowski and "last night...." because it has my favourite buk poem "bluebird"
If you could have only one Bukowski book forever
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So you're picking two? :p
If I could only have one book, I'm afraid I'd cheat and take the 'Run with the Hunted' reader. It has a bit of everything - a really well edited selection really.
Other threads along these lines include:
favorite novel / book
What is the Best Bukowski book, whether it be poetry or a novel?
If I could only have one book, I'm afraid I'd cheat and take the 'Run with the Hunted' reader. It has a bit of everything - a really well edited selection really.
Other threads along these lines include:
favorite novel / book
What is the Best Bukowski book, whether it be poetry or a novel?
thanks for the links and i really should have of thought of "run with the hunted".
bluebottle
Founding member
i'd go with burning in water, drowning in flame too. either that one or roominghouse madrigals
Burning in Water... is probably his best book of poetry; encompassing some 11 years or more. If I had to live with just that one, I'd be OK.
Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Mine too! That's the only sensible solution. It fits nicely in a suitcase with wheels underneath...
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jordan
lothario speedwagon
bluebird has been ruined for me ever since i heard valerian sing it. seriously, i can't read the damn thing without thinking of that fucktard singing like a pirate in a high-school musical. it makes me so angry i want to find him and kill him, and i'm really not a violent person normally.
i've never heard that before but if i had there is a good chance i'd feel the same way. I hate whwn people ruin stuff that way. I used to love the poem "roll the dice" before i heard Bono read it. I really fuckin' Hate Bono.
bospress.net
www.bospress.net
no arguments on this point from the lot of us....
bobo is a prick. er, I mean bono....
Bill
bobo is a prick. er, I mean bono....
Bill
I'm in the right place then. One of these days on i'm going to start an online petition in a hope to pass a law to keep bono away from the works of both Bukowski and Bob Dylan.
Rekrab
Usually wrong.
Ditto on this pick.
I need to watch/listen to Bono more. I don't know enough to hate him. Or maybe I shouldn't even go there.
I would have to agree. It has poems, parts of novels, and short stories. perfect choice
Father Luke
Founding member
I have been told that everything Bukowski wrote
was one long poem.
I would like to have that.
was one long poem.
I would like to have that.
The Roominghouse Madrigals, by far.
YOU GET SO ALONE AT TIMES IT JUST MAKES SENSE
I can crack this one open as if it were my I-Ching, always a meaning in it.
I can crack this one open as if it were my I-Ching, always a meaning in it.
number6horse
okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
I will choose Dangling In The Tournefortia, since Burning In Water/Drowning In Flame has already been mentioned, and I can never decide which of those two I love best.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Good choice, I need to get it. I bought Notes of a Dirty Old Man Tues. instead of that. Next time.
Hey G KH L: The bit on pages 134-136 about the young whore and the madame is great. I just read it whilst having a good poop.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Did that have anything to do with your success in the John?
No, I believe that I once read it while getting divorced, having my car stolen, losing my job, and hacking my nuts off with a rusty grapefruit spoon; all within a span of about 15 minutes, and I still found it quite funny. ;)
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Thank you Purple SP I just found the book, nearly lost in the trash out of the car from a trip straight down to So Cal from Portland. It had a wad of gum stuck to one corner and the receipt for it's purchase from the wrong Barnes and Noble as a book marker. If you had not made that recomendation it would have been tossed.
After all that, and trying to stay on thread, that might mean this is the one Bukowski book.
After all that, and trying to stay on thread, that might mean this is the one Bukowski book.