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... who is a warts-and-all stand-in for his creator.
His novels (I've lifted the list from wikipedia) are:
* Post Office (1971)
* Factotum (1975)
* Women (1978)
* Ham On Rye (1982)
* Barfly (script) (1984)
* Hollywood (1989)
* Pulp (1994)
...
10) post office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
****1/2
This is my first foray into Bukowski's novels, having now been acquainted with his poetry and shorter prose for a couple of years. The hallmarks of his shorter fiction are all present here: the down and out protagonist surrounded by a ...
... of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew
Twenty Questions by Alison Clement
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Twister on Tuesday by Mary Pope Osborne
... author is Isaeli. I was excited about finding an Israeli novel in my used book store. Oh, well.
The second book was Post Office by Charles Bukowski, one of the "beat" authors of the 70's. I started reading it in honor of kidzdoc who was recently in City Lights Book Store in San Franc ...
... with the setting of North Africa or the middle east.
I'm in the process of trying to decide whether or not to keep Post Office . I'm just not in the mood to read it now. Maybe I'll just keep it and read it some other time. I think I need to stop trying to read so many books at once. I ...
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Novel, 1971
An autobiographical account of Bukowski's life as a postal worker, covering a period of 12 years. Henry Chinaski is Bukowski, gambler, womanizer and heavy drinker. He joins the post office as a substitute mail carrier. He hates it, and ...
I'm kicking The Crime of Writing by Haim Lapid off my list. I can't get into it.
I'm laying aside Post Office until I finish the new ER book I just won. It's Secret Son by Laila Lalami. This will be the first book I've ever read by a native Moroccan author.
... back and forth to my computer to see and study them. Kahlo's life is so bizarre and facinating.
I'm reading one book, Post Office by Charles Bukowski to protest that fact that kidzdoc is in San Francisco (and specifically was in City Lights book store), and I'm not there. One can ...
... yet. I'm curious to know what you—and anyone else—
think of his writing.
I'm about half way through Bukowski's Post Office now. It' funny, but not overwhelmingly so. I think the fun of reading this book is because of Bukowski's name over a long period of time as a beat writer. He ...
... obvious to me from early on.
LOL! Always happy to be associated with you and your library. I'll have to go check out Post Office . *skips off singing "I'm going on a 'bonnie-run,' tra-la-la-la..."* :-))
... catalog of their books is so tantalizing, and the last thing I need is more books!
I just started reading Bukowski's Post Office last night and love it. I'm a big fan of most of Richard Brautigan's writing (although I recently tried to read Trout Fishing in America and gave up half ...
... I probably should start posting links to my reviews here as well.
Now I'm reading Post Office by Charles Bukowski.
*runs off singing "I've got a book that you don't have..."* :)
... imagine how hard it is to find his books second hand. No one wants to part with them. The book I've started tonight is Post Office .
Have you read any of Bukowski's novels or poetry?
... a book by Charles Bukowski. Thinking about San Francisco reminded me of the beat writers of yesteryear. I started Post Office tonight.
... by Mikhail Bulgakov, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and the Post Office series of novels by Charles Bukowski are all classics.
... Catch 22 it seems to me is in some ways a rewrite of the first 100 pages of Journey to the end of the night. Bukowski's Post Office has my workplace down cold. Factotum is another work of his which revolves around boss and employee antipathy. As well to mention William Faulkner's As I lay ...
... el
Not as good as I thought it would be...
- The Moomins and the Great Flood, Tove Jansson (trns. David McDuff)
13. Post Office , Charles Bukowski
14. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë
15. Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto (trns. Megan Backus)
16. Comet in Moominland, Tove J ...
... Row (17-24) One Hundred Years of Solitude
Contemporary (1-8) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (9-16) Post Office (17-24) The Crying of Lot 49
Novels by Women (1-8) The House of Mirth (9-16) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Plays (1-8) The Glass Mena ...
... travel guide
Alaska - Drop City by T C Boyle
California - recent reads set here include Post Office by Charles Bukowski, Tortilla Curtain by T C Boyle, The Graduate by Charles Webb
Florida - All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland and Darkly Drea ...
... if I address non-fiction separately.
Fiction (in no particular order)
Fup Jim Dodge
Naive Super Erlend Loe
Post Office Charles Bukowski
Choke Chuck Palahniuk
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Jon McGregor
Non-Fiction (not read that many so just picking two here)
Th ...
I picked up at a libray book sale shelf:
Post Office by Charles Bukowski.
... e
1. The Russian Debutante's Handbook Gary Shteygart
2. The Best Thing that can happen to a Croissant Pablo Tusset
3. Post Office Charles Bukowski
4. She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
5. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
6. Replay - Ken Grimwood
7. The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas ...
... Maxwell
The New Leader's 100 Day Action by George Bradt
1491 New Revelations of The Americas Before Columbus by
Charles C. Mann
beatles1964
... e
1. The Russian Debutante's Handbook Gary Shteygart
2. The Best Thing that can happen to a Croissant Pablo Tusset
3. Post Office Charles Bukowski
4. She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
5. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
6. Replay - Ken Grimwood
7. The End of Mr Y Scarlett Thomas
...
... e
1. The Russian Debutante's Handbook Gary Shteygart
2. The Best Thing that can happen to a Croissant Pablo Tusset
3. Post Office Charles Bukowski
4. She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
5. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
6. Replay - Ken Grimwood
Read so far: 6
To Read: 2
Crime & ...
... by Robin Cooper
Return of the Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper
Letters Home: Correspondence by Sylvia Plath
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Junk Mail by Will Self
... of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor - beautifully written and another one that nearly had me crying at the end.
3. Post Office - Charles Bukowski - the first Bukowski I've ever read. I found it really funny and although his alter-ego narrator character isn't really particularly likeable, ...
I really don't normally read this much but I was home on my own this weekend.
5. Post Office - I finished this in a couple of hours on Saturday evening. Whilst he's not the sort person, I'd want to spend time with in real life, I loved his writing style. He is a drunk and a gambler, but ...
... it at first, but good writing is good writing. It had a good plot and believeable characters.
I'm now reading
5. Post Office - Charles Bukowski.
I didn't fancy anything in my pile of books and am waiting for a few new ones to arrive so borrowed this one from my OH's section. Its one ...
... tov
5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by A. Brönte
Honorable Mention: All the Pretty Horses, The Invention of Morel, Post Office , Steppenwolf, The Wild Geese/Gan
Disappointments:
Disgrace by Coetzee
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro
The Secret Agent by Conrad
Worst of:
T ...
... but they were never that compelling.
I also started reading Charles Bukowski. I love him I have finished Post Office and Ham on Rye. I have always enjoyed Kerouac but found his writing to be a bit scattered. Bukowski is all the that I love about Kerouac in a wonderful ...
... Trilogy by Paul Auster
3. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Honorable Mentions: A Clockwork Orange, Post Office , and Two on a Tower
Post Office (#70) ****
by Charles Bukowski
04/16/08
... can I say? Rincewind is awesome.
23F.) The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
And more Discworld fun.
24F.) Post Office by Charles Bukowski
I have actually read this before, but it has been a long time. I love Bukowski's novels. must remember to check out Women.
... Sometimes a Great Notion ***½
6. Paul Auster - Oracle Night ***, The Book of Illusions ***½
7. Charles Bukowski - Post Office ****, Factotum **
8. Chuck Palahniuk - Diary ½, Survivor **
Triple {complete}
9. Jerzy Kosinski - Being There ***½
10. Thomas Pynchon - ...
Just read my first Bukowski novel last week, a guy in work lent me Post Office . Fucking loved the book, really resonated with me as I worked in a call centre for nearly a year and it was the same type of work environment, shit head bosses with hard on's for "the stats". Go read it!
... over instead of work.....my favorites are ham on rye, women, the roominghouse madrigals, tales of ordinary madness, post office ,septuagenarian stew, factotum. the most beautiful woman in town, and south of no north
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