Anyone Like Charles Bukowski?
 

check this out. He took no shit at a poetry reading. He hated those pretentious, suburban college wannabes


http://drivingsocrates.com/charles-b...-by-hyperlexic

download the mp3 file

I read Ham on Rye,The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Notes of a Dirty Old Man.

Still to this day some of my best reads !

HUh never head of him.. Will check it out.

Start with "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town"... a collections of short stories....... that should be enough to get you hooked.

"Ham on Rye" was made into a move called " Bar Fly "

Bukowski was one of a kind...as brilliant as he was crazy...

http://www.sticks-stones.net/images/charles2.jpg

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Not really my taste of literature, but at the same time cant say that his works are not good.

I love that old bastard

he describes life just like it is
no romance shit :thumbsup

Guy was an artist - absolutely bitter and real - what's really sad is reading tough guy actor Michael Madsen's poetry books... he's a wanna be Bukowski and SUCKS so BAD!!!

yep goes great with tom waits songs and urban moonshine...

A good read, thanks.

"Religion is the invention of failures."

Love that author. Think I've read the books I have from him at least twice; Bone Palace Ballet, Run With the Hunted, Pulp, Screams from the Balcony, Open All Night.

is he the charles that invented the bukkake??
:upsidedow

did everyone download that mp3 file at the end?? that was fucking great. you could hear the hatered in his heart for entertaining those white college kids. the hippy movement seemed to embrace him, but he hated them. he knew they were nothing but a bunch of privilaged white suburban rich kids who had absolutely no replacement for the system they were trying to tear down. great shit. i'd like to hear more.

exactly. i love that part where he says "i'll come down there and clean out all you babies. i'm a tough son of a bitch." naive kids just clapping away. :1orglaugh

For some, he's just exceptional. I like some of his works though.

If you like Bukowski definatly check out Steven Jesse Bernstein.
Another amazing tortured poet who was the real deal and pulled no punches.

he released a spoken word album on the subpop lable a few years back that is exceptional.... Released after his suicide.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=music