Bukowski is in good company at last. Love the thematic idea, personally. Congrats man.
I am going to bang on the door of a bookstore or two here in Chicago and see what they tell me. Have you asked around at all where you are?
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I am going to bang on the door of a bookstore or two here in Chicago and see what they tell me. Have you asked around at all where you are?
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
I could go for a taco right now. :-))
mjp
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For the record (and in case anyone from ECCO is listening), I don't have a copy of any of the new ECCO books.
cirerita
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Can anybody share their thoughts on what to expect from the upcoming book On Writing?
Just wondering if I should sink the money into purchasing this book.
Thanks
Just wondering if I should sink the money into purchasing this book.
Thanks
zobraks
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I don't have the book, but this excerpt sums it up nicely.
i don't get it. this whole thread is about the book with links to reviews and descriptions.
mjp
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@curious abt cb started a separate thread and it was merged with this one.
cirerita
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Nice review here:
http://www.avclub.com/review/charles-bukowskis-writing-essential-fans-few-other-220297
Take a look at the comments...
http://www.avclub.com/review/charles-bukowskis-writing-essential-fans-few-other-220297
Take a look at the comments...
mjp
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Or don't.
There's nothing there you haven't seen or heard before. Just a bunch of A.V. frequent fliers having a circle jerk.
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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
I received my copy of On Writing today. I like the facts that it's a hardcover book and I´m looking forward to reading the letters. After having flipped through it, i do have a couple of minor complaints. It would have been nice if the reader were told who the people Buk wrote to were. There's info on some of the names, but far from all of them. Who's is people like Gerard Belart, Norman Moser and Jack Conroy, for instance, just to name a few? For the newbie it would also be nice to know who important people in Buk's life, like say, Webb and Corrington are. An index would have been nice to have too. Still. it's just minor complaints, but i think they're worth mentioning anyway although one should´nt look a gift horse in the mouth.
the Cooney-books of letters have them and I use them quite often. This feature is priceless.
mjp
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That would be a nice addition. Of course it would be a nice addition to this thread too. Just saying.
I set The Bell Tolls for No One aside to read this one first. It's really good.
I think I remember a Dylan (Bob) site that had a who's who that was insanely extensive. One of those for
here, independent of a search feature would be very cool. Probably too much of a pain in the ass to realize,
at this point, but I like those kinds of things.
here, independent of a search feature would be very cool. Probably too much of a pain in the ass to realize,
at this point, but I like those kinds of things.
Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
A Who's who would be real nice and more important than an index.
Btw, I bought my copy of the book from English Amazon and was a bit surprised to find out it was´nt an Ecco book, but a book from English Canongate. I guess Canongate prints the English edition on behalf of Ecco, but I´m now wondering if there's any difference between the two editions. The dust jacket seems to be the same though. The Canongate book is black with golden letters on the spine and the paper quality seems to be a bit cheap. So, can anyone tell me if the Ecco edition look the same way?
mjp
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It would seem that it's Canongate in the UK, yes. I'm talking to them about something to do with the book (more tomorrow). I don't know anything about the relationship between the companies, if one is a subsidiary or whether it's just a typically confounding international arrangement.
that's right. I also ordered my amount of books for the bukowski-shop directly from Canongate (scottish btw) to avoid the insanely high shipping-cost from the US.
(still it's over 30 British Pounds shipping for 30 copies)
hopefully, Canongate will deliver my order in time, so I'll be able to bring a stack of the title with me.
Abel already agreed to sign them in Hamburg.
I also hope, that I'll be able to offer 'The Bell Tolls' at the Hamburg-event, but at the moment, it doesn't look like it'll happen to have them in time.
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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
You're talking with Canongate about the book? That sounds interesting. Maybe you could ask them if the look their version of the book is exactly the same as the one from Ecco, if you can sneak it into the conversation (the one from Canongate is black with golden letters on the spine). Not that it's that important, but we´ve often seen the British editions looking differently.
Good idea, even if you had to pay £1 per book in shipping because it will cost much more in shipping for a person to order a copy from Amazon UK. I paid £10.49 for the book, plus £4.66 for shipping. That's £15.15 in all. On top of that I had to pay 25% in VAT (value added tax) of both the book price and the shipping price, which came to £3.78. So, all in all i had to pay £18.93.
mjp
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I'm talking to them about giving away some copies of the book (to UK forum members).
The Ecco version is black letting on a black cover/spine. Black on black, with just a shade more black.