/lit/ - Literature

>>18260070
They tend to think they're way more intelligent than they actually are

>>18260070
Because they're often also attempting (and failing) to be like him.

>>18260070
Because you are a virgin freak nerd and their superiority makes you insecure.

>>18260070
Because all of them are teenagers

>>18260070
People who claim to like Bukowski never read him apart from quotes on social media.

>>18260163
Is it worth it? From what I've seen it's extremely pornographic simply for the sake of it

>>18260171
>extremely pornographic simply for the sake of it
bukowski in a nutshell desu

my great uncle is enamored with bukowski and has thousands of dollars worth of his first editions, many signed and some even signed to him directly. He’s a 65 yr old child who drinks and smokes weed endlessly. He’s obviously mentally ill and his outbursts have forced even his family to limit their contact. He idolizes bukowski and during my visits with him would insist that I read this or that one first, because it’s perfect for this time in my life. Sad stuff and it’s clear that his understanding of “being cool” in the 70’s coupled with an obsession with Bukowski rendered him useless and alone for the rest of his life

>>18260070
Because you're a pseud and they're better than you. Buko is one of the few people in the last 300 years that could actually write properly.

I never understood why he didn't just move out

>>18260978
the entire point in basedkowski's writing is usually that people who live shitty lives actually enjoy it

>>18260171
Some of his poetry is not bad. I read a selection of his poems, I think it was "Essential Bukowski", and there were some good ones there. Still a lot where he just tries to shock with vulgarity or just takes you on a trip to the depth of human misery, but there are some decent ones.

Other way around, people who dislike Bukowski for seemingly no reason always seem like they have a bug up their ass

>>18260872
Your uncle sounds pretty cool to be honest. Sounds like he has to deal with a shitty family.

>>18260872
sounds based

>>18260872
Sounds like a real dude; His family, on the other hand, sound like some faggoty HR department.

>>18260070
Ham on rye is pretty good. He’s not my favourite author but it’s nice to have something different once in a while

>>18260171
I only ever read factotum, but the parts I remember most included him fucking some Asian lady at his job and him having shit stains in his underwear before going to the racetrack to gamble.

>>18260872
>grandpa left his kids to smoke pot and read pulp westerns in California, only doing construction jobs when he ran out of money
>still could estimate a job down to how many tiles a room would need even as the cancer metastasized in his head
if only the cunty side of the family didn't get his ashes

What is entry-level Bukowski?

>>18262534
it doesnt matter. not an author you need to ‘ease yourself into’ or whatever other nonsense. no authors are like that actually, but i can see why some are treated in that way. only need entry level anything when reading philosophy

>>18262604
<3
: )

>>18262604
This. Author charts are dumb. Outside of Joyce, Henry James and a couple others, reading order isn’t important

>>18260070
because he was a fat old jew and the people that like him are a bunch of plaid wearing bearded stoner liberal arts college yuppies

>>18260171
it's just edgy enough to get you through adolescence. then it loses most of its value