false 38501 8 <p> In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, <i>Ham on Rye</i> offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression. </p> 958661 1982 Ham on Rye: A Novel total:4983|5:1901|4:2037|3:850|2:156|1:39| 4983 20554 6563 421 4 2 false false Sun Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 22:31:15 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 23:12:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 21:12:56 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 17 14:29:53 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 9 false false Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 15:41:08 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 21:13:55 -0700 2008
Enjoying the hell out of it.]]> 4 1 false false Fri Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 1990 Mon Apr 28 05:04:26 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 05:06:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 23 12:18:30 -0800 2008 Thu May 15 17:34:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jul 13 16:32:30 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 16:43:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Nov 02 09:50:29 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 02 06:26:34 -0800 2008 This Boy's Life, by Tobias Wolffe, but there is a much less forgiving tone in the writings, much less sentimental feel which could come from the distanc...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 14:00:16 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 14:02:27 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Thu Dec 11 10:09:04 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 13:18:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:54:26 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 20:55:13 -0700 2009
Defending the late Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) and his rebellion against societal norms is a lost cause, and while hi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 15 08:44:47 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 08:49:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 07:40:38 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 08:21:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Aug 21 13:12:33 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 09:33:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 29 07:44:56 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 16:45:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 16 10:36:42 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 12:13:52 -0700 2009 Sex and the City , the TV show, represent the totality of every woman. She then asked me if there was a similar thing for men. Well, Bukowski's novels are the best approximation I can think of and Ham on Rye is his best, along w...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 08:46:52 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 12:40:22 -0700 2009
I've always enjoyed the minimalist diction of Bukowski and Vonnegut; that seems to be the greatest objection by dorks who say things like,...more...]]> 1 3 false false Fri Jan 02 06:54:07 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 07:00:45 -0800 2009
Utter filth! Truly, this is the novel from Hell. While I know that Mr. B has a very particular worldview that is often...indigestible to some, I can appreciate that voice is his poetry... it, I don't know, functions better. But if I wanted to read about a pock marked adolescent plea...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 28 10:12:49 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 10:15:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 06:44:33 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 06:50:05 -0800 2009
But... Th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 07:04:28 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 13:57:32 -0700 2009 more...]]>