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Anonymous Mon Dec 10 05:39:07 2012 No.3230350 [Reply] [Original]

I just learned of this man's existence, /lit/.

Can anyone recommend a novel to start with?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 05:55:08 2012 No.3230364 >I just learned of this man's existence, /lit/. Are you fucking twelve? Fuck off. Reported for being underage.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 05:57:08 2012 No.3230366 >>3230364 >I'm really mad because I'm a superiorfag who knows about literature and stuff Sorry that I'm only just getting back into reading. I figured the people of this board might have some helpful suggestions and maybe not be cunts about it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 06:00:12 2012 No.3230370 >>3230364 Maybe he just has good taste.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 06:03:29 2012 No.3230373 I started with 'The Most Beautiful Women in Town' a great collection of short stories

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 06:09:19 2012 No.3230378 >>3230373 Thanks, I'll check it out.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 06:09:49 2012 No.3230381 File: 61 KB, 800x169, Bukowski_Peanuts_Lucy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i loved his work with Charles Schultz.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 07:03:11 2012 No.3230456 >>3230364 Everyone has to start somewhere. Do yourself a favour and stop acting like a petulant little shitheel - especially if you're going to play the age game. It's just sad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 07:05:58 2012 No.3230462 >>3230370 But Bukowski is shit

>>	BarbadosSlim !!rEkSWzi2+mz Mon Dec 10 07:08:30 2012 No.3230468 >>3230373 Hot Water Music is where I started.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 15:50:48 2012 No.3231487 >>3230350 Either Post Office or Ham on Rye. The first one is his first novel, the second one is the novel about the first period in his life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 15:53:48 2012 No.3231496 I really wanted to like him /lit/, I really did. I tried reading his stuff and tried looking at it from a different perspective but at the end of the day he's just a white drunk with the same opinions as other white drunks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 16:02:48 2012 No.3231517 >>3231496 ah, you failed the test, pity.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 16:17:29 2012 No.3231550 come on fag fucken suck it

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 16:22:15 2012 No.3231578 >>3231554 What an asshole. Can he go five minutes without drinking?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 10 16:28:15 2012 No.3231601 >>3231578 Of course!

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 11 04:48:06 2012 No.3233911 Lol yeah hes an asshole, so what. I read Ham On Rye first, then Women. Read his poem A Radio With Guts.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 11 06:05:09 2012 No.3234059 >>3230462 >that was the joke