I read and liked Bukowski in my teens (even carrying a copy
of POST OFFICE with me to the school), but then, 15 years
later, I read WOMEN, PULP and a short memoir illoed by Robert
Crumb (forget the title) and couldn't get past it. I don't
think I finished PULP at all (it's horrible and there's no
excuse for Bukowski to have written it) and WOMEN revealed -
to me, at least - that Bukowski was a conservative drunk who
wanted women to wear dresses and not jeans or trousers and
wanted to listen only to classical music and not that awful
crap called rock'n'roll. The short memoir was full of tired
and pretty normal bullshit about how people lead their life
to waste. Anything new?
Well, maybe I'm confusing Chinaski and Bukowski, but the
books *are* autobiographical. I may give some time to
FACTOTUM later on and may want to try POST OFFICE again, but
I'm not very tempted after WOMEN.
Juri
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