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books you wish you read when you were in high school


-or-

books you wish you read when you were younger

>> No.1004006

The Trial finally got me into reading classics independently, before I had just gone along with what was taught in school.

Yeah, I wish I had caught on to that earlier.

>> No.1004338

bamp

>> No.1004513
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kliebold and harris' web site

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For whatever reason, they didn't teach this in my high school, and so I ended up learning calculus for retards and had to be re-educated.

>> No.1004520

What other good bukowski books are there besides ham on rye?

>> No.1004529

>>1004520

Factotum

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I don't think I read much at all in high school. I wish I'd done guys like Orwell, Steinbeck, John Wyndham much earlier than I did.

I was about to say something, but I'm too inebriated to recall. Oh yeah, I don't know whether to blame this on the virtual absence of the internet at the time or myself.

>> No.1004555

>>1004520
Read Post Office.

Factotum is the most boring, plotless parts of Post Office repeated over and over and over and over. Only read it if you really like Bukowski or desperately need to know what happens in Chinaski's life.

>> No.1004603

i didnt understand the ending to ham on rye

he fights all his life, a mexican kid beats him at a boxing game..?

>> No.1004608

The Unbearable Lightness of Being