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Or anything else by Bukowski for that matter

Pic related

A girl I knew gave me this for my birthday because she knows I like reading.
Should I even bother with it? Is he really the American Céline? What's the best part of this fucker's writing?

>>10593491
I respectfully disagree, best Bukowski prose is pic related. Written towards the end of his career and life, it's the most refined his writing has ever been. The veil was lifted and for once you could see the person under the gimmick just enough for it to be truly endearing. Ham on Rye is something a drunk rambles to you on a barstool. Women is something a drunk tells you on his deathbed.

Try Bukowski. Lots of liquor, little work, all the girls and still feeling like shite.

>>9505407

Will reading this when I'm drunk and fucking angry make me feel better?

Did you notice the way most authors refer to "women", in that anonymously collective way? Like talking about their relationships and personal lives. "The women" are always anonymous and non-important compared to the person talking about them, their entire beings collapsed to a single, catchall word. What I mean is that "Women" is usually used as an euphemism for a series of sexual relations with many different females over some period of time, rather than just that, a number of females larger than one. Like when Bukowski puts in as the title of his book, it's obvious to the reader that what is meant by it is the whole process of interaction between men and women, the "dating sphere", etc. A very utilitarian way of describing people, makes it seem like they're just objects to be used or something. You know what I mean?

I guess the inverse is also true, but it's nowhere near as widely used, probably because women don't talk about men as openly as men do about them. And to be honest I don't really know how to describe this clearly because the idea I have of it is rudimentary still, more like a feeling or something.

>>8287971
This desu

I guess what I like about Futurama is that it's more manly than anything. Not to be sexist or immature, but I feel like a girl. I want something manly! None of that lumberjack look on a hipster type of deal.
Has anyone read Woman by Charles Bukowski? Esquire.com describes it as...
"Henry Chinaski, the gritty, drunken poet protagonist of Bukowski's best novel, is an irresistible bastard, cock-first and rough, more than a little mean, eternally horny, broken, beaten, isolated, needy, and somehow smarter than he used to be. In private, no honest woman would ever shrug off the raw energy of his kind of want." which sounds good to me...