Don't follow the hype, Bukowski
Used to be obsessed with this guy but having read "Woman" i am no longer in his fanclub
Nowhere near as good as Cormac who in turn is not as good as Chekov.
posted by Lixo at
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Used to be obsessed with this guy but having read "Woman" i am no longer in his fanclub
Nowhere near as good as Cormac who in turn is not as good as Chekov.
2 Comments:
thats rubbish he's a completely different writer to chekov or cormac, and women, although brutal in places is actually a very tender book. comparing him to chekov is like comparing the sex pistols to bach. pointless. people always diss bukowski cos he's so easy to read and you read all the books when your eighteen and somehow its not seen as proper literature. But the fact that he's so easy to read is what makes him one of the greats and being so easily accessible, and using drinking, womanising etc as the vehicle to talk about the universe is a trick few have managed with such panache. so there.
I agree, i think it is more the fact he writes the same great book over and over again, I think his poems are often more interesting along with some of his short stories.I only compare him to the other two writers as they were what i was reading at the time, thanks for your comment
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