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Originally posted by Fletch XXX
Bukowski rules, few can do it the way he can. His novels are motivational.
As for Naked Lunch, Ive read The Soft machine, Junky, and The Wild Boys over and over. Burroughs gets me going. His Cities Of The Red Night trilogy is nice too. He does some really weird twisting of history in these...
good stuff
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I've read a number of other Bukowski's, but Hollywood had me laughing my ass off.
As you said he is motivational. I finally learned to write because of him.
What I learned from him was to just be free and write about what's happening, how you feel at that moment, the sights the sounds, but don't try to be pretentious and sit down with a thesaurus and try to sound "educated," "artistic," etc.
There was a point in my life where I had iterally 1,000's of scribbled notes, poems, prose of just what was going on in my life at that moment.
I'd carry a pen and slips of paper everywhere I went, and whatever was going on in my head at that moment that's what went down...and it was some of the best writing I have ever done.
But it was all lost
