false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178137225m/38500.jpg 38500 27 <p> Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. </p> <p> With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to <i>Post Office</i> and <i>Factotum</i> is an uncompromising account of life on the edge. </p> 3706 1978 Women: A Novel total:4400|5:1436|4:1585|3:1012|2:277|1:90| 4400 17200 5591 376 5 9 false false Sun Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Wed Jul 16 09:13:27 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 07:36:19 -0700 2008 My dad thought it was a good idea to take his 19 year old daughter to Vegas. Because I LOVE watching everyone else gamble and drink while I can't participate!
To be fair, we saw some really good shows (Blue Man Group and...more...]]> 5 5 false false Thu Jun 14 07:09:22 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 13:40:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 08:15:47 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 16:02:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 5 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Jul 19 23:44:03 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 23:55:28 -0700 2007
I loved Bukowski as a young teenager and now that I go back and re-read I can only imagine that I enjoyed the truth and rawness at that age when I was getting lied to everywhere abt. the relations between men and women.

NOW the misogyny is eff...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon May 26 06:23:32 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 06:58:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Feb 28 11:00:13 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 11:37:27 -0800 2008 Women and realized I wasn't going to learn anything new about women from this alcoholic egotist. I read the next 300 pages because he's funny as shit!

I've never read anything by Bukowski, save for the poem about the Blue Bird which I really like...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 03 20:11:31 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 20:46:47 -0800 2008
But then I came across an LA Times Book Review of "Pleasure of the Damn: Poems...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 23:16:37 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 24 21:54:27 -0700 2008
If Pulp is Bukowski's intellectual candy, then Women is a main course. His prose is still wonderfully simple and quirky as seen in the last few lines of the novel:
"... I opened the door and walked out on the porch. There was a strange ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 20 15:45:16 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 15:54:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Sat Sep 22 15:29:22 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 15:55:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jul 02 11:12:09 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 11:15:43 -0700 2007
He is not a misogynist; he merely tells the truth. Actual...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu May 31 08:27:48 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 08:30:20 -0700 2007 everyone should give ol Hank Chinaski a try - I find that the world can pretty easily be divided into two kinds of women - those who find Buke misogynistic and those who want to go drinking with him. Obviously, I am of the latter. This is the book that got me into Blac...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Sep 28 08:11:12 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 08:13:46 -0700 2007
Some how I finished the book. I actually started feeling bad for the main character, Henry Chinaski (AKA CHAR...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jul 04 20:59:06 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 21:01:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Dec 13 12:31:50 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 12:47:56 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 12 18:17:42 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 01:49:27 -0800 2009
"I thought about breakups, how difficult they were, but then usually it was only after you broke up with one woman that you met another. I had to taste women in order to really know them, to get inside of them. I could invent men in ...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Sep 01 09:26:10 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 22:57:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 22 11:39:10 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 12:08:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 16 15:31:45 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 15:41:37 -0800 2009 I think he's very honest. this is a very autobiographical work.
he writes his own experiences, he's very plain spoken, intelligent, not intellectual, funny as hell.
is he a pig? well, maybe, but he's a funny pig...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 24 17:45:50 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 17:57:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=38500