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Bukowski thread?

>> No.4961933
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>>4961929
wrong .jpg

>> No.4961935

>>4961929
Bukowski is a hack.

>> No.4961940

>>4961935
Thats the appeal

>> No.4961946

Bukowski wasn't that bad. He was less of a one trick pony than he appears at first glance. That's one sign of a good artist in my book. Read his poetry in the Days are Horses to see what I mean. Beautiful love stuff. Plus I do think he was really playing a joke on us all with his self-purported image. Anyone who reads Bukowski and thinks he's just a drunken dickhead wannabe rockstar is just missing the desperation of humanity just below the surface of his writing.

>> No.4961947

>>4961933
he's so gorgeous. he literally looks like a crack in the pavement. you can imagine a dog turd just six feet away, sliding towards his nasty, grimy gremlin face.

>> No.4961965

>>4961946
he was just that, that was the appeal. it's relatable but the stories are too simplistic, same as the writing.
>desperation of humanity
more like the futility of a war against mediocrity, am i right? baddum tsssss

>> No.4961966

>>4961929

good pic op, lol

>> No.4961974

>>4961965
I can't tell if you are agreeing or countering me. granted I am a little drunk, incidentally.

>> No.4961985

>>4961946
I find he romanticises the writer's life, it inspires me to write myself

>> No.4961986

>>4961974
i meant reading bukowski is like the futili.....yada yada

what're you drinking? i'mon a jug of whisky i've been on for three weeks. no brand, swapmeet, fifty dollars american.

>> No.4961999

>>4961986
that made no sense either.

my point is: bukowski is a good taxi, bus, train, plane, boat ride book but he doesn't deserve the high praise he receives.

>> No.4962001

>>4961986
I'm drinking manhattans made with Evan Williams. When the vermouth gets too sweet for me I just drink the EW with a splash of water. 50 bucks for a jug seems high?

>> No.4962006

>>4962001
>50 bucks for a jug seem high
Actually, yes.

>> No.4962010

>>4961999
So you're saying he's a comfort read? I won't argue with that. But at the same time, every comfort read has more than a little talent, and every monolith of literature is a goddam boring struggle.

>> No.4962046

>>4962006
perhaps, but this is so absurdly strong i doubt it's legal. I have to mix a glass of lemon juice (limes cannot handle this scandal) with the 'whisky'. i just cannot take it straight.

>>4962010
no, a comfort read is like eco's focault's pendulum, or toole's CoD. just fun stories with no real meaning other than perhaps some light social commentary.

he's like a vonnegut. the stories are good-ish but they don't even try write it. if that makes sense

basically, and i'm being emphatic to prove a point
>hipsters writing mediocre stuff because they can, and people buy it

that is the dream, though,is it not?

>> No.4962081

>>4962046
I agree, that's why I said he's playing a joke on us. The irony of his hack-ishness is unavoidable. He's a proto hipster, but that doesn't make him an actual hack.

Also where are you from? If you enjoy the provenance and such of the whiskey I can't blame you, fifty bucks is even a good deal if we're talking about a gallon or so. But where I come from I can get EW at 86 proof for 18 bucks a liter and a handle of everclear for 30$ But like I said, its always fun splurging on something unique and rebellious, after all, isn't that why we buy Bukowski?

>> No.4962086

>>4961999
Bukowski is for people with bigger souls than you

>> No.4962109

>>4962081
>irony of his etc....
irony doesn't make a good story. pretending to be a hack doesn't make you not a hack. i'll agree his stories are not terrible but they are in no way good.

>where are you from?
same as bukowski

>>4962086
that may be. I've never seen mine but i'd bet it's of average length, though a bit girthy, with a preferential lean to the right.

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If you like Bukowski, I reccomend reading Cuban author Pedro Juan Guiterrez

>> No.4962226

>>4962222
>If you liked this great American writer, might I suggest this degenerate Cuban fascist?

Bukowski may have hated us, but by god he was one of us.

>> No.4962314

>>4962222
Wwow look at him, with his tattoo and his cigar and his rolled-up sleeves... I bet he thinks he looks super tough and cool

What a faggot

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>>4962086
>souls
kek

>> No.4962357

>>4962350
>he doesn't have a soul
what are you, a dog? be gone, dog.

>> No.4962359

>>4962357
No, I am a cat, meow.

>> No.4962362

>>4962359
Is that so? Well, I am a Kant: me, ow.

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>>4962362

>> No.4964054

Bukowski has literally never produced even a sentence that is worth reading. Only college-age girls romanticize alcoholism and loneliness, and actually buy the bullshit he spews.

>> No.4964089

>>4962222
he looks like the house of cards cunt who wanted to keep the prostitute in a cage

>> No.4964094

>>4964054
>"It began as a mistake."
>not worth reading

Pls.

>> No.4964179

God I'm so tired of Bukowski hate on /lit/. It has no ground whatsoever, it's just people who don't even read his books trying hard to feel superior by disliking something popular.

''Only college-age girls romanticize alcoholism and loneliness''.
This is so devoid of actual criticism and commentary that it's almost revolting.

>> No.4965490

>>4962109
back

>>4962226
he was a loathsome degenerate but which one of us isn't?

>>4962357
>>4962359
>>4962362
>>4962363
samefag

>>4964054
everything is worth a read, even if it isn't very good.

>>4964089
ever read the books?

>>4964179
is a superiority-complex needed to dislike a novel with a story even more simplistic than the writing?

>devoid of actual criticism and commentary
how about this:
>he did not live, he drank
>he did not love, he whored
>he did not write, he noted

we, as a literary society (retain from laughter) must at least pretend to promote literature and need to stop praising mediocrity

>> No.4965500

>>4965490
*refrain

>fixed