if you like bukowski...

[pavlovich74]

Try Will Self, W.T.Vollmann and some Russians like Dostoyevsky and Gogol.

maybe the second time , this will work. Most of the above authors are brilliant (except for the ones I haven't read yet). No one has mentioned Will Self yet and W.T.Vollmann is a must read although has been mentioned already

what a gallah! I thought that my posts werent getting through.

 

[Ponder]

No problem, the webmaster is hardly busy with this forum, so he will put your posts together!

 

[bospress.net]

Pavlovich74,
So we know not that you are a cook, have recently stolen a $40 Bukowski book, have insomnia and have no appetite. Also, that you like Vollmann.

On to Bukowski. What is your favorite Book? Favorite poem? Do you collect or buy only to read?

 

[pavlovich74]

Ever since i found a copy of " Ham on Rye" ive been stuck on the one author deviating slightly to read some of the books that B had mentioned in his work. I only stole the one book, at the time I could imagine Buk saying it was ok cause he was dead and wouldnt get any royalties any way. Before I read Buk It was mainly Russian lit that I was interested in

Favorite poems are metamorphosis and we'll take them that I have already quoted and put out the light ( the flash of lightning..). Too many poems and stories to mention right now but out of the thirteen books ( purchased ) that I have there are only a few stories that i can say dont either make me laugh or even consider my own life in relation to the stories being told

 

[bospress.net]

Ever since i found a copy of " Ham on Rye" ive been stuck on the one author deviating slightly to read some of the books that B had mentioned in his work. I only stole the one book, at the time I could imagine Buk saying it was ok cause he was dead and wouldnt get any royalties any way. Before I read Buk It was mainly Russian lit that I was interested in

When you were imagining him talking to you from beyond the grave, did he also say that his heirs did not need the money? They are very much alive.

Bill

 

[SouthernGentleman]

what else should you read?

Harry Crews and Bukowski are kindred spirits, though Crews has a very traditional structure to his books that contrasts with Bukowski's heterodox style. They are alike insofar as the darkness of their worldviews is reflected in their books, and they write about marginal characters. A highly recommended author.

 

[Dzerzhinsk]

I can't believe no-one's mentioned Henry Miller yet!


I'd say anyone wanting something funny, Bukowski-esque and generally a good read, go for Sexus by Miller.

 

[mjp]

I'd say anyone wanting something funny, Bukowski-esque and generally a good read, go for Sexus by Miller.

Sexus just reminds me of Robert Deniro and Juliette Lewis in Cape Fear...

Danielle, I told you, you can't escape your demons just by leaving home.

I didn't. My parents brought me here.

Of course. Where's Sexus?

Back at the house.

Shame. I had hoped we could read aloud from it together.

Well...I, um... I memorized some for you.

Did you?

Yeah.

Well, I'm impressed. Which part?

The part...You know what part. You know.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. I don't think you did your homework.

I did.

What parts was that? The good parts?

Yeah, they were...

Were you a good girl?

I was. I knew you'd follow me here.

And then she proceeds to throw boiling water in his face, which doesn't even make Deniro's character flinch - being a supervillan and all - and he says, "Are you offering me somethin' hot?"

I know Deniro was supposed to be menacing, but that movie is pretty damn funny. I think he was playing it for laughs.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I know Deniro was supposed to be menacing, but that movie is pretty damn funny. I think he was playing it for laughs.

I like De Niro and all (probably the best actor of his generation), but Mitchum was faaaar more menacing in the role. And if you want of the most menacing performances of all time, watch Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter.

 

[xxedgexx]

Has anyone mentioned Tony O'Neill? I recently discovered him through Burning Shore Press, who also publishes Dan Fante. Tony O'Neill is pretty amazing in my opinion...

I guess I just like junkie stories, haha.

-jeremy

 

[bogthing]

I like De Niro and all (probably the best actor of his generation), but Mitchum was faaaar more menacing in the role. And if you want of the most menacing performances of all time, watch Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter.

Yeah, "Love and Hate"...Mitchum takes it, hands down.

 

[UrbanDKaye]

My list:

Dostoyevski (Notes)
Fante (all of it)
Ray Carver (almost anything)
Hamsun (Hunger)
cummings (Enormous Room)
Jeffers (Rock & Hawk)
Al Purdy (Collected Poems if you can find it)
Hemingway (your choice)
Celine (Journey)

and as a wildcard I'll throw in "Hell" by Henri Barbusse...
also "Bar Scotch" by New Orleans street poet Everette Maddox.

 

[slimedog]

Has anyone mentioned Tony O'Neill?

I think I'm gonna get something by him, thanks for the tip.

 

[Chromiak]

Nobody has mentioned Lawrence Ferlinghetti, so I will. Better than Ginsberg, if you ask me.

 

[ottimo]

T. Coraghessan Boyle...very different but has a similarly sardonic sense of humor and a similarly honest kind of insight into things.

 

[bongobill]

i'm also a fan of t.c. boyle
and recommend his novels

another author not yet mentioned
tom robbins
has written an impressive collection
of amusing and thought provoking novels

 

[thebadges]

Yeah, someone else told me to read Confederacy of Dunces, haven't yet. That's on my list of things to do when I finish uni

 

[James Altucher]

Just was looking at this book:

Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms

and reminded me of bukowski.

 

[mjp]

Daniil Kharms sounds like a terrorist, or someone who is stealing tech support jobs from hard working Americans, but your blog is good. You should post something here.

 

[David]

Is this James Altucher, the financial guy?

 

[Tombo]

If You like the humanist in Buk, The Human Comedy by William Saroyan is a must-read. This little book is so raw and unfiltered, it will aim straight for Your heart and make no prisoners on its way.

 

[Gin Soaked Boy]

If You like the humanist in Buk...

I only like the misogynist in Buk.

 

[David]

Buk dug Saroyan, especially the early Saroyan.

 

[BrunoAndernacht]

Ask the Dust, by John Fante is a great book. The Neon Bible was written by J.K. Toole, who wrote A confederacy of dunces, and it's a very good novel, in spite of being written at the age of 15. I'd recommend you to read a Spanish book, but I don't know if it has ever been translated into English. That's as pity because its one of my favourite books, it's called El Camino (The Way) and its author is Miguel Delibes.

 

[Camuscando]

what else should you read?

I have been opened up to a lot of different authors through Bukowski. I fell in love with Albert Camus through Buk. I would definitely suggest reading the authors he mentions in his books/poems. They are a great place to start. Try Arthur Schopenhauer, Niccolo Machiavelli, and even Sun Tzu for some fun reads.

 

[Mark Rogers]

Willie Vlautin - especially his latest - Lean on Pete

Strindberg's Days of Loneliness

Hamsun for sure - check out one of his lesser-known works, Shallow Soil

 

[christopher]

I haven't read A LOT of Buk's work yet and I'm not sure if you like Bukowski if you'd necessarily like these other authors but two of my favorite are:

Chuck Klosterman
and
Chuck Palahniuk

 

[DirtyJersey13]

I have read books by both of them and can't say they reminded me of Bukowski at all. What similarities do you see between them?

 

[christopher]

I guess I should have clarified.
I don't really see any similarities at all (or minimal at best).
I guess the point that I was trying to making was:

I love Bukowski.
I love Klosterman/Palahniuk.
There has to be a reason why I love all 3 authors.
I guess I thought that if I love all 3, others may like all 3?
I may be reaching here. haha.

 

[Zoroaster]

what else should you read?
knut hamson's "hunger."

I too got onto Hamsen via Bukowski. I strongly recommend 'Pan' - probably my favourite book of all time. Hamsen wrote with real magic...