what's the last buk book you'd read? or read again?:confused:
the absolute LAST buk book
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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
I don't write to strangers on the internet
Hey. Who are you? Why are you asking me that?
I have learned you can ask anything of anyone once, you have earned the right to ask. I don't care how much you know until I know how much you really care.
Tell us about yourself and how you got here. Then you get a warm puppy dog welcome.
Hey. Who are you? Why are you asking me that?
I have learned you can ask anything of anyone once, you have earned the right to ask. I don't care how much you know until I know how much you really care.
Tell us about yourself and how you got here. Then you get a warm puppy dog welcome.
chronic
old and in the way
You mean a good leg-humping, right?
right-o! here's my story, a weary and sordid tale though it be... a close friend turned me on to Post Office when we were in our early 20s. the line about taking a shit and smoking a cigarette in the dark became a daily brain flash. i thought of it often, but i soon had to return my friend's loaned Buk book. alas, i did not seek out jack. instead, i ploughed thru a stack of hemingway and faulkner and shakespeare [okay, bitchslap me now] i didnt return to Buk until a few weeks back. i picked up where i left off then took to Women.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Welcome, I am in the beginning of The Night Torn Mad and at the end of The Days Run Away while I'm in the middle of The Shipping News. Yes that's weird but I have a dog as my avatar and I multi-task in my own way.
All that and I'm reading:alternative man
All that and I'm reading:alternative man
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
welcome,
On my bed ,Women by Bukowski,
Go west young toad, Gerald Locklin,
Rilke , ou l'ange déchiré, by Pierre Martens,
Krishna poems, by Herschel Silverman,
Nine Headed Dragon River, by Peter Matthiessen,
and Kramers woordenboeken Engels, so I can understand Ponder
On my bed ,Women by Bukowski,
Go west young toad, Gerald Locklin,
Rilke , ou l'ange déchiré, by Pierre Martens,
Krishna poems, by Herschel Silverman,
Nine Headed Dragon River, by Peter Matthiessen,
and Kramers woordenboeken Engels, so I can understand Ponder
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right-o, david. i wanna know everybody's LEAST fave. lemme clarify. i'm a little sloe
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Black Swan, isn't it uncomfortable to sleep on all of those books?
Lumberdung, does that mean woodshit? And do the woods shit on the bear? Welcome to the forum this is shaping up into a decent and interesting thread. It's not easy picking a least favorite.
Lumberdung, does that mean woodshit? And do the woods shit on the bear? Welcome to the forum this is shaping up into a decent and interesting thread. It's not easy picking a least favorite.
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
Thanks. Perhaps published by Waterrow?
Tja, het valt niet mee om't onregelmatige taaltje van dit kikkerlandje te doorgronden.
Desalniettemin zou Roni enigszins in staat moeten zijn om er nog wat van te maken, maar ik vraag me ten zeerste af of zélfs hij nog iets meekrijgt van voorafgaand broddelwerk.
Laat je niet kisten, zit niet bij de pakken neer, wees niet bevreesd, geen man overboord, alles komt tenslotte op z'n pootjes terecht!
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Father Luke
Founding member
I liked this part: Last edited by Ponder; Today at 04:24 AM.
I mean, as if, right?
I mean, as if, right?
here's the data:
Gerald Locklin:
New and selected poems.
edited by Paul Kareem Tayyar.
Huntington Beach, CA: World Parade Books, 2008.
isbn: 978-0-615-19734-0
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Gerry Locklin:
'The Ultimate Pessimist'
He could never decide
Whether his cup
Was completely empty,
Or whether perhaps
There just wasn't
Anything in it.
remember, a wild shit doesn't bear in the woods. he roads in the shit and woods it in the kick.
even before you suggested "pulp bashing" i had that book on my shelf just waiting for me to get thru "women". i'm about half-way thru "pulp" and i grow more confused at every page. this is kinda sorta diff'rent from some of buk's other werks. what say ye?
LickTheStar
Sad Flower in the Sand
Ham on Rye. Not because its a BAD book but because it so entirely, wholly, completely, and utterly DEPRESSING. I read it once, got depressed, and then read it again thinking... "There's no way it could have been so depressing the first time, I must've been in a mood."
Ugh, I was wrong. It is really depressing. Great read, but damn... It lacks much of the humor (or humour for those not in America) and wit that I really loved in Buk's other works...
Ugh, I was wrong. It is really depressing. Great read, but damn... It lacks much of the humor (or humour for those not in America) and wit that I really loved in Buk's other works...
right on, roni. i see opinions vary. i'm eager to see how it all comes out in the end.
CarversDog
RIP
I've always wanted to read Pulp because I love the idea of Bukowski bringing his own aesthetic to the crime novel genre but what has stopped me every time is the overwhelmingly love it/hate it reception by critics and the reading public. Rarely have I seen a novel that so widely polarizes it's audience like Pulp does. (Except maybe Confederacy of Dunces)
