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746522 No.746522 [Reply] [Original]

so what does lit think of this fag?
personally, he's the reason i got into literature, and now years after first reading him, im majoring in it.

>> No.746529

So your life is one mistake after another?

>> No.746533

Bukowski is my favorite drunk

>> No.746535

>>746529
just dropping in to say mine is, lol!

>> No.746538

>>746529
or im just a homeless womanizing alcoholic, depending on how you look at it. but wait...that describes most of 4chan...

>> No.746552

As a person I like him in a way because he was a softy really. The only thing he really loved was women and not just physically he wanted to love and be loved and he was a lay his heart open kind of guy. But his writing I can't get behind 100 percent. Yeah one of the first novels I read was Post Office and to this day it's one of my favorites. But then I read Ham on Rye and Women and it just kept going downhill. His shorts suck ass and his poetry can be amazing.

Though if you read the people who influenced him (John Fante and Celine) you realize how much better the two of them are and how much Bukowski jsut tries to mimmick them completely without really being too original himself.

>> No.746559

>>746538
>homeless womanizing alcoholic
>describes most of 4chan
Most of 4chan lives with their parents, has never touched a woman, and is too young to drink alcohol. So, no, it does not describe most of 4chan.

>> No.746560

>>746521

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>> No.746563

Postin' in a hipster thread

>> No.746564

>>746538
> homeless womanizing alcoholic

wut? we all live in our parents basement, get mouthrash from touching alcohol and never even have touched a girl...

>> No.746565

I think he's fun to read, but once you've read one of his books, you've read them all.

>> No.746569

I think he was a writer who couldn't write, and he's now loved by current writers who can't write.

>> No.746572

>>746559
fair enough. clarification; its what most of 4chan tries to come off as.

>> No.746573

>>746563
postin in a hipster board

>> No.746582
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746582

>>746573
OP here. i actually fucking hate hipsters. but whatever.

>> No.746584

>>746582
So you have satisfied the number one condition of being a hipster then

>> No.746594

>>746584
lol, you got me there...walked right fuckin into that

>> No.746597

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/5739940/Charles+Bukowski+71naked1bukowski.jpg

Magnificent bastard.

>> No.746602

reading Women now.

stop with all your opinions of it at once.

>> No.746798

>>746569
So is there a right way and a wrong way to write? He's doing it wrong therefore he can't write no matter how many people love his work?

Good writing is just an opinion. Personally, I don't care for Bukowski, but I wouldn't say he doesn't know how to write just because I don't like him. All writers have their strengths and weaknesses. This guy's problem was story structure (among other things). But that doesn't mean there aren't other strengths that appeal to readers.

>> No.746800

beer whores beer omg imma so drunk fuck that- beer shit

>> No.746801

>>746582
hipsters never realize they are hipsters. kind of like yuppies.

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