/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18375410]

What’s the consensus on bukowski here?

[Anonymous No.18375431]

>>18375410
He's the great filter.

[Anonymous No.18375534]

>Woman hating, child hating, rich hating, thinks shakespeare tolstoy are hacks
uhm... Based?

[Anonymous No.18375538]

Based person, terrible writer.

[Anonymous No.18375541]

>>18375410
Based as fuck.

[Anonymous No.18375573]

>>18375538
Ok writer, terrible person

[Anonymous No.18375590]

>>18375410
Well what the fuck do you know. I just finished Ham on Rye. I liked it well enough and am definitely looking forward to checking out more of his work. Gonna read Women next.

[Anonymous No.18375639]

He used to be well liked here, but as this is a contrarian board, when normies started posting his quotes about 'don't try' and shit, apparently he's gone off.

Factotum really helped me during a certain phase of my life but I don't really feel the need to go back to his work.

[Anonymous No.18375788]

Post Office was the worst novel I've ever read in my life at the time I read it (was around 18), but his poetry is entertaining if not structureless bullshit and meaningless wanking.

He's fun to read as a safari experience of observing some useless drunk have philosophical musings.

[Anonymous No.18376779]

>>18375590
Read factotum next. It’s way better than women

[Anonymous No.18376807]

>>18375410
Good poetry, I personally really liked The Bluebird, but reading Women, it was genuinely unpleasant hearing his thought processes.

[Anonymous No.18376811]

>>18376779
Bump,

Women is overrated, I haven't read factotum though

[Anonymous No.18376812]

>>18375534
>thinks shakespeare tolstoy are hacks
wtf I love Bukowski now

[Anonymous No.18376822]

>>18375639
This. I'll also echo Factotum. Read that one when I was doing a bunch of shitty jobs, made the situation bearable.
Some of his poems are lousy but there are real gems in there.

[Anonymous No.18376828]

>>18375410
>the atomic age is doing a dirty shit and getting drunk
Bravo Bukowski!

[Anonymous No.18376832]

>>18375639
He was just obsessively forced here for a time, he was never particularly "well liked" here.

[Anonymous No.18376836]

>>18376822
Is that a man or a really worn out hooker?

[Anonymous No.18376841]

>>18375538
>>18375573
ok writer, based person

[Anonymous No.18376844]

>>18376836
a very worn out girl. perhaps some posters here wouldn't be so bitter and weird if they just relaxed with a beer and slept with ugly women.

[Anonymous No.18377039]

>>18375410
good poet, not outrageous by modern standards so his novels fall a bit flat. at least the one I read (the Postal Service)

[Anonymous No.18377727]

I think at a certain point he decided to cultivate this persona or mythology of himself as some kind of nihilistic coomer but in reality he was a serious sad boy feels guy. Besides subtle hints in his writing you can see it most clearly in his influences, especially books like Ask the Dust.

I think all of his talk about “the atomic age”, etc, etc was mostly about him figuring out his own taste and sense style, and less about the actual quality of other writers. I mean, just look at what he said about Henry Miller.

[hungryman !!5BI0oSV9uvS No.18377757]

>>18376844
That’s next level ugly though.

[Anonymous No.18378086]

>>18377757
the penis has no eyes

[Anonymous No.18378126]

>>18378086
Why do defeatist cringelords say this? I can't get hard with girls I don't like or that are ugly

[Anonymous No.18378149]

>>18378126
pussy is pussy, idgaf what is attached to it

[Anonymous No.18378167]

>>18378126
All cats are grey in the dark

[Anonymous No.18379698]

>>18375410
Shit author.

[Anonymous No.18380014]

>>18375410

I enjoyed Ham on Rye. Interesting and honest look into the lives of how trashy poor people live.

[Anonymous No.18380143]

>>18375639
>reads literature as self-help
Embarrasing!

[Anonymous No.18380161]

>>18375410
I don't like his novels but some of his poems are pretty good and inspiring

[Anonymous No.18380234]

>>18375573
Homo detected

[Anonymous No.18381280]

>>18375410
I think Bukowski is like Palahniuk where it's really edgy and cool when you're a teenager and really embarrassing when you're an adult. I consider him a red flag author.

Bukowski is to Tucker Max as Pulp Fiction is to Scarface which to be 100% clear means that he's like the Rich Man's Trash Boat.

[Anonymous No.18381757]

Talented, but a total degenerate

[Anonymous No.18381813]

Writer of ass piss schlock whos every talent has been done to better effect by leagues of other writers.

He's the poet normies read after getting off their 9-5 office jobs to experience hollow misanthropy vicariously and exalt themselves for reading poetry in the first place.
Get the fuck out of here with these buk threads

[Anonymous No.18381827]

>>18375410
Great entry level writer, learned about Camus and Celine from him, doesn't give enough pseud points unfortunately

[Anonymous No.18381880]

>>18375410
I used to hate him, but I've come to love a lot of his stuff

[Anonymous No.18381888]

>>18381813
2nd paragraph is unarguable.

Buk is trash, don't fucking read him.

[Anonymous No.18382620]

Bukowski is what it looks like to write sans any pretension. Its like defying gravity, yet he does so without even consciously trying.
His poems have a zen like directness, paring away anything unnecessary. His poetry is effortless, sublime, honest to the bone.

He is an amazing writer and the only reason academia ignores him is because he's white, working class and not pc

One of the greatest american poets, tho incels here will hate on him just cause he got more pussy as an old man than they ever will.

[Anonymous No.18382660]

Tourist core

[Anonymous No.18382680]

>>18375431
this thread is proving your point

[Anonymous No.18382770]

>>18381280
Lmfaoooo. Just watched an old clip of tucker max getting shredded on Opie and Anthony. Fuck that homo

[Anonymous No.18382839]

Chad larp. The OG field report.