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...
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...
I've only read tiny fragments of Bukowski in the past, which I thought were good, but not great. This is my first full book, by him and it is a brilliant autobiographical novel. It covers the author's childhood until in his early twenties Pearl Harbor happens. The book shows the brutalization and...
Although I have dabbled a bit in some Bukowski verse, this was the first prose of his that I have read. I’m no stranger to the Beat writing style, having read On the Road and Junkie so I knew that Ham on Rye was probably going to be a very in your face, graphic novel…and I was right.I probably allow...
Bukowski mi nikako "ne sjeda". Previše mi djeluje lažno i čini se da nastoji stvoriti imidž okorjelog buntovnika. Sasvim prosječan roman, jedina pozitivna odlika mi se čini dinamičnost, no pretjerana sklonost pokušavanju šokiranja i blesave scene u kojima djevojčice dižu suknjice nepoznatim dječacim...
Bukowski isn't the person who's going to write you bedtime stories or sensitive drama. Really, there should be no need to introduce him, but he ranks among writers as Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway in terms of the somewhat vernacular style and gritty subjects he treats. As in most of his books, w...
Much better writing than in "Post Office" or "Factotum," the other two books by Bukowski I've read. Also a lot more depressing, less laugh-out-loud funny, and more realistic (I suppose the lack of constant sex makes it seem so). Probably more of a 3.5 than a 4 star, but I'll round up.
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