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    <body><![CDATA[John Fante was Bukowski's god, and &quot;either you adore him or you've never heard of him.&quot;  Writing that's raw, swolen, true, and moving from a macro view of paragraph by paragraph, tectonic plates, words that are so organic, you never think about the words, they're tendons and muscles and jo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6143829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Ask the Dust</em> is about as good a book as has ever been written. I say book, instead of novel because I'm not sure it is a novel.  Same with story, not sure there is much of a story here either.  Instead, it is a hotwired connection to the mind of Arturo Bandini, the manic writer manifested in this an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6999386">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Siempre había querido leer 'Pregúntale al polvo', porque el título me parece precioso. Pero era uno de aquellos libros que siempre dejas para otro día. Cuando por fin lo cogí de la biblioteca (después de haberlo considerado ya muchas veces antes) ni siquiera sabía de que iba, pero cuando en c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6772542">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember when I was fourteen, reading Catcher in the Rye. I went downstairs and told my mom, &quot;it's the weirdest thing, this guy is, like, reading my mind!&quot;<br/><br/>She said, &quot;Matt, everyone thinks they're Holden Caulfield.&quot; God, adults can be so stupid sometimes. Obviously s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6499963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My california friend Amelia told me to read this; I took it from her house, and she'd made little notes in it so anyone who borrows it would get the L.A. insider references.<br/><br/>I enjoyed reading it; it is a very fast read and fun - and you can tell that he was one of Bukowski's big influence...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Do a quick search on Fante and get the scoop on his story. He was/is loved by a lot of other writers and Bukowski called Fante his &quot;God.&quot; I'm not a huge Bukowski fan but I can see the influence. Bukowski takes it all one or two (or five) steps further with the violence, sex, drugs, etc. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81137047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed, and now they were beliefs I felt were myths. This is the sea, and this is Arturo, and the sea is real, and Arturo believes it real. Then I turn from the sea, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62828836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Etrange découverte que celle de ce livre. Je l'ai reçu par la poste d'un expéditeur inconnu, mais qui lui devait bien me connaître. La lecture du 4ème de couverture m'a emballé, chose assez rare. La lecture quant à elle m'a enchanté.<br/>Il m'a été difficile de mettre une note sur cette h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53104907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Please accept my humble apologies for the insensitivity of the human race to anyone who's first exposure to Fante's work was stumbling across the Hollywood adaptation of this novel on HBO some dreary post bar evening.<br/><br/>Read it if only for the crisp, if not painfully delicate  honesty of hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15903684">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are two reasons why i decided to read this book...Tim Kasher and Charles Bukowski. Tim Kasher referenced both Fante and Bukowski in song he wrote for his band the Good Life. Probably one of my favorite musicians of all time (he is also in the band Cursive, one of my alltime fav bands) While Bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61250663">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved loved loved the descriptions of Los Angeles in 1938/39.  Some things were so much of exactly the same of what they are now (some things that you might have expected would have changed) and some things were so very different.  Since I'm in downtown most every day, I was thrilled to read about A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70193113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up for a buck last week.  Fante's such an easy read that I should have been finished that night, but I can't even seem to feign an interest in fiction lately.  Well, maybe that's not entirely true.  Maybe brain is still convalescing from all the Texas, drugs, and alcohol that I consume...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50034803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think there should be a &quot;gave up&quot; option. I am currently sick of this book and the overwrought narrator. I think I can guess why a maudlin alcoholic might find the pendulum swings between lust and disgust compelling but I don't know - I'm not in my 20s anymore. Did this particular down a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53336998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked up this book while perusing the shelves of a small, musty establishment in the Franklin Village, intrigued by its appearance, uncertain at first whether or not it was a Bukowski novel of which I had simply never known. <br/><br/>Temporarily disillusioned with literature (thanks a lot, Jonat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63618945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just reread this book and am amazed by the life and vibrancy on every page.  I've never really thought about how a book ages, in terms of the energy that the text still exudes (written in 1939), but I think this narrative would be a good example of that model.<br/><br/>Also, in terms of characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77223656">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perfect is an adjective rarely used in the world of fiction.  In my opinion, The Great Gatsby and McCarthy's The Road are examples of perfect books were not a syllable should change.  You can add the criminally underappreciated John Fante's 1930's Los Angeles novel among them.  The one thing that al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58202057">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fante is always wild--the style morphs, shifts, page to page a different book almost. It doesn't seem exactly controlled, but it is pleasingly human. Plot: a man and a woman fight like dogs over the scrap between them--it could be love, its more likely lust. She falls prey to, gasp, marijuana. The n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81134581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fante exposes himself, Fante gets weird, Fante is weird, Fante, Fante, Fante. I was surprised. I didn't know what to expect. Bukowski drops heavy praise for this guy. So what does that mean? I don't know. But I liked what I read. I wasn't really sure at first. Then I couldn't put the sucker down. I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67043712">more...</a>]]></body>
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