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    <body><![CDATA[This was my introduction to Bukowski.  A friend loaned me this book after reading a short story I wrote, telling me that I would probably enjoy it. <br/><br/> As I read it, a strange feeling came over me.  It was the feeling of excitement knowing that I was reading something brilliant mixed with t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19166105">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A college creative writing teacher of mine after reading a bunch of my poetry asked me if I had ever heard of Charles Bukowski. I had not. He told me that I would love him. The next night my friend and I were going to the LA Philharmonic. As I waited while he took a shower I mentioned Charles Bukows...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78714236">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was looking for something new (to me) in the early 90's and some dweeb in a Brentano's recommended this to me because Bukowski has died months before.  I hate discovering something great just after the author has died.  I also hate people saying how great some author (or artist) was after they die...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27473868">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't an amazing, blow you away book, but is that what you would really expect going into it?  I've read a handful of Bukowski novels before and I've liked them even though some of their honesty makes me cringe now and again.<br/><br/>This is a selection of short stories, mostly autobiograph...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67866479">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm at a total loss as to why this guy is popular amongst people my age.  To be fair, this is the only book of his I've read, so maybe I'm missing something.  But really, straight forward stories of life as a drunk, dirty, old man are not very interesting.  They're often depressing, as would be expe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59060687">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Charles Bukowski's Tales of Ordinary Madness represents a collection of short story's very much unlike other short story collections. It's been some time since I read the book, but I rememer the language as well as some events as being restless, disturbing, and sometimes quite aggressive.  Bukowski'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45270216">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[once upon a time, in a shitshack bookstore not unlike so many other shitshack bookstores, a life-long love was forged. employed at this store was a strapping young lad named chris. bright-eyed. bushy-tailed. boneheaded. and enamored with the wealth of books surrounding him. he was perplexed as where...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36246724">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There is only one Bukowski just like there is only one Henry Miller and one Ernest Hemingway. Sometimes Bukowski seems to get a little too negative, but he, like Hemingway, was blessed/cursed with sensitivity that he tried to hide with booze, women and general debauchery. Still, his writing, when it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34220975">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome Bukowski short stories :) The title really could sum up his entire works :) But yeah, these are just more short stories; I guess I'd call these ones my least favorite collection of short stories, but that just means instead of being insanely superbly awesome, they're just insanely awesome wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39528740">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The title, like most of Buk's titles, reflect a blistering connection to reality.  Which is why I like his work so much.  Because so many authors I have read seem to have zero connection with any street I have ever walked.  Even the one just down the road to Safeway, for chrissakes.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic, quotable Bukowski.  However, if you are just starting out on the quintessential dirty old man, you should read &quot;The Most Beautiful Woman In Town&quot; first.  Bukowski needs to be eased into, and this collection of short stories gets a little dark and crazy.  If you started here, you m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35539811">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually read this editon: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Ordinary-Madness-Charles-Bukowski/dp/0872861554/ref=ed_oe_p." title="http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Ordinary-Madness-Charles-Bukowski/dp/0872861554/ref=ed_oe_p.">http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Ordinary-Mad...</a> I'm not even sure if they're the same book, but I'm pretty sure they are.<br/><br/>Anyway, typical Buk here. All of these stories were probably written over a bottle of rum. Some of them reminded me of Hunter S. Thompson. My fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35956308">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Vulgar, crass, fun, horrifying, realistic, interesting. A great place to see whether Bukowski is for you or not. Pick it up and try a couple...you'll either be offended or hooked. Either way, Bukowski is definitely worth exploring. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Checked this book out because of pure curiosity after stumbling upon the first book I read of his.  Bukowski has my respect and appproval but will refrain from reading another book by him for a while.  Small doses :).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best Bukowski fiction books.....a short story collection. It shows some of his earliest work....which has an actual, unfaked primitivsm to it, like Amish, non-perspective paintings.]]></body>
    
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