This was not an enjoyable read. Sometimes "good" books aren't, but at least they make you think or inspire you or something along those lines. That wasn't the case here either. It was the really depressing story of a young boy growing up in a unloving, violent and dysfunctional family. To become?...
A tender and heartwarming coming of age tale about a German immigrant family coming to America and the humorous tales of growing up in a loving and hard-working family. Hahaha! Yeah…no. Not even close. I really did like this one, even though it fizzled out a little toward the end for me. A manly-ma...
Not my jam. In fairness to the author, I'm not a fan of poetry in any modern or, for that matter, sophisticated, form. There are exceptions, and I thought maybe, being a collection On Cats, this would be one of them. Nope. There were a few - a very few - I liked and would enjoy reading again, b...
Synopsis: "It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged m...
This was a reread for me, so I knew what I was getting myself into. Nevertheless, Bukowski never bores, no matter how many times I read his stories. Ham on Rye is a quintessential tale of an angry young man. What sets this one apart is the fact that he has a plenty to be angry about. Bukowski's writ...
”The racetrack was important to me because it allowed me to forget that I was supposed to be a writer. Writing was strange. I needed to write, it was like a disease, a drug, a heavy compulsion, yet I didn’t like to think of myself as a writer. Maybe I had met too many writers. They took more time di...
Reading Ham on Rye is like sidling up to an old man in a bar and listening to him tell interesting anecdotes of his youth while you buy him beer after beer. As the pages turn, the fascinating world of the protagonist takes hold. I enjoyed everything about this book and found it interesting to hear s...
Put aside any politically correct concerns you have before reading this volume. Bukowski's Hemingway-esque voice doesn't leave room for any sensitivities. His poetry is the better for it - unsanitized, vibrant, loud, coarse and unique, these poems are full of the pain & humour of being an ordinary h...
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