/lit/ - Literature

Sup /lit/izens
Recently my platonicwomanfriend recommended that I try reading Bukowski.
Would Post Office be a good place to start? Does he have any short stories of note?

I don't get it.

just finished reading this, picked it up out of curiosity.

can any bukowski fans tell me what is the appeal of this guy?

What are /lit/'s opinions on Bukowski.
Is he overrated and glorifies drinking too much?

I personally loved the shit out of Post Office, and he's a generally like-able poet

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Just finished this after reading Factotum.

More books like this, PLEASE! (not necessarily Bukowski)

I just finished Bukowski's 'Post Office'. It's the first I've read of his few novels, and I've never read his poetry, so this was a real first glimpse at the guy's writing for me.

I'm not sure if I liked it to a huge extent. I found the nature of many act's within the novel to be drunkenly immoral, obviously, and although highly entertaining at times, I still found the profanities of Chinaski to be a tad too frequent to be taken seriously, even for the daily goings on of a drunkard in his time.

Given this was Bukowski's first novel, and I'm no critic, but I don't quite see how Bukowski went on to become quite prolific as a writer after this. It was written well is all.

What are your thoughts. I'm thinking of moving onto Factotum next.