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  <title><![CDATA[Notes of a Dirty Old Man]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;&quot;People come to my door-too many of them really-and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old  Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk. . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away. . .&quot;&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1969</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Bukowski]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been three long days since I finished <em>Notes</em>. Under ordinary circumstances, this is where I'd move on to something else and forget everything about it. The whole reason for joining <em>good reads</em> was to keep track of all those books I simply cannot remember reading. Almost everything I pick up seems...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35292861">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 22 22:52:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rating books with stars, like bars or restaurants or anything else is pretty silly.<br/><br/>This was a good book to read at night while drinking pints at pubs in Seattle. A collection of &quot;articles&quot; from a small(?) paper in Los Angeles (?), there's no apparent chronology or order of any ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25176715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21154261">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bukowksi worked well when given every writers dream: carte blanche to write whatever he felt like writing, only to have it reproduced by the LA FREE PRESS and on the streets in a week, being read by thousands. Bukowski himself writes of the magical feeling of having the freedom to write whatever he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21154261">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43791873">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was expecting something witty and intelligent, what I got was violent, crude, misogynistic and highly unpleasant, in the beginning at least. After a few tens of pages it settles down into a more, well mostly, stable narrative; almost like Bukowski wanted to put off the reader from delving further ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43791873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46102897">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 11 20:00:43 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of all the Bukowski prose (that I've read anyway), this seems the most immediate, least filtered, and purestly filthy.  One can never be sure if his column for Open City was as easy to write as he claims (&quot;sit down, crack open a beer, and let it go&quot;), or that his work was as unedited.  But...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46102897">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 25 16:56:20 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Notes on a dirty old man are some of the funniest, sadist, and mesmerizing stories. Bukowski told it like it was. If he was banging a chick he would tell you everything about. If she was ugly. He would tell you about. In his writing he never feels the need to hide behind anything. To give you a reas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44332836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14632945">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bukowski tem que ser lido. Não tanto pelo que ele tem a dizer, mas muito mais pelo jeito que ele diz. O estilo de escrita dele é legal demais. Mais do que usar bem as palavras, ele usa bem as frases. Escreve telegraficamente. Frase ponto, frase ponto. Muito bom mesmo.<br/><br/>A escrotidão dele...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14632945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1303079">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 18 18:42:11 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great book this was. Note, I have to use the past tense here, only because I lack the ability to appreciate the origins of a genre that have been subsequently done to death by the time I got around to reading the original. <br/><br/>In terms of a debaucheristics romp it is bacchanal, and it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1303079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39528766">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not bad, lotsa drunken Bukowski ramblins...I picked this up as the second book of his writings I tried to take a run at, but it would've been better later on I think when I knew him better. But from what I remember it's him writing a bunch of columns in some magazine and he takes on his usual Bukows...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39528766">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77420191">
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 11 06:00:59 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 11 06:23:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a really awesome story in here, if you can find it.<br/><br/>This book is absolutely fascinating. I love the writing style (similar to Kerouac's <em>Visions of Cody,</em> but better, somehow) and I love the freeness with which every idea is expressed. This may be the most elegant word vomit of all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77420191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12515278">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lori]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jan 22 05:35:33 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am quickly finding Charles Bukowski to be a favorite author of mine. He has this very witty and gritty style of story telling, and from what I gather, alot of the things he writes about comes from is actual true life experiences.<br/><br/>This particular book is a collection of his short stories...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12515278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43854571">
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 21 15:22:42 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 21 15:25:16 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dude. I love his entire body of work, from the journals he kept while running a tractor on a California farm, to his exploits in LA, to his outrageous and raunchy fiction, to his grudging spoken word monologues. Inexplicable, really, but I adore him.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1992</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tough-ass tales culled from his L.A. Free Press days I used to take for granted, not realizing a literary badass stalked my back yard...drunkenly. Beat writings told in a hard-boiled noir style. Hard shit to put down.]]></body>
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    <review id="64569299">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There really isn't much to say about this book. It was like reading a bunch of word salad, only in drunken text. not much of it is worth reading, maybe a handful of the anecdotes. his rants are mundane and supercilious, completely unnecessary. ]]></body>
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    <review id="66476041">
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1991</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My introduction to the raw, uninhibited world of hank...and what an introduction it was.  I've been a sucker for the dirty old man ever since.]]></body>
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    <review id="57289392">
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    <body><![CDATA[Best Bukowski book I've read so far. Ugly, gritty as alley dirt, and strangely sad and uplifting at the same time.]]></body>
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    <review id="18017772">
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    <name><![CDATA[Josh]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 18 10:27:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is one of the few bukowski books i would not recommend to anyone.  this was his serial column of truly non-linear and non-inspiring ramblings.  the shocking thing about bukowski was the amount of cohesive gold he produced while being so intoxicated/angry/etc and this is most certainly not it.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18017772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77312422">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kim]]></name>
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