Hot Water Music

by Charles Bukowski
Hot Water Music
book data
1,717 ratings, 3.89 average rating, 98 reviews (more data...)
edit

published
June 5th 2002 (first published 1380) by Ecco

binding
Paperback, 224 pages

isbn
0876855966    (isbn13: 9780876855966)

description
No descriptive copy available




Sign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.


topics  posts  views  last activity   
The Next Best Boo...: OFFICIAL SUMMER CHALLENGE 2009 3840 4462 4 minutes ago  
Bukowski who is he really? 1 7 03/05/2009 09:37AM  

friend reviews

To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

other reviews (showing 1-20 of 2,218)

sort: default (?) | date
filters: all | text-only


Chris
07/26/07
Chris rated it: 1 of 5 stars

Just because your book is filled with a lot of drugs and a lot of sex and a lot of cursing doesn't make it good. I hate Charles Bukowski almost as much as I hate Hemingway. I'm pretty sure that last sentence knocked me out from ever holding a prestigious place in the literary world.
Like this review?   yes   (2 people liked it)
  2 comments

pardis
09/01/08
pardis rated it: 5 of 5 stars (review of other edition)

Read in January, 2008
شخصيت محوري داستان هاي بوکفسکي،هنري چيتانسکي نام دارد.او اديبي است بدمست که درباره همه امور با صراحت و بي رحمي نظر مي دهد،به موسيقي علاقه مند است و از زنان گريزان.
در داستان هاي موسيقي آب گرم،ويژگي هاي جامعه ادبي و روشنفکري آمريکا را از منظر يکي از اعضايش مي توان ديد؛اين کت...more
Like this review?   yes   (1 person liked it)
  add a comment

Andy
11/07/08
Andy rated it: 5 of 5 stars

bookshelves: jazznbeats
Read in May, 1991
recommends it for: buk fans, natch!
Thrilling collection of Bukowski short stories: lots of sex, booze and gambling, yeah!
"Home Run" is about the beating of a cocky bartender, "Broken Merchandise" is a brilliant account of road rage, "The Man Who Loved Elevators" is like a Todd Solondz movie about an apartment house sex maniac, and "900 Pounds" is about a fat guy in a bathing suit about to kill you. Other stories are nothing more than drunken phone calls, but the dialogue is very, very...more
Like this review?   yes   (1 person liked it)
  1 comment

Sheida Sarlak
این کتاب عین خوردن یه قوطی آبجوی گرمه!
Like this review?   yes   (1 person liked it)
  1 comment

Emalie
05/20/09
Emalie rated it: 5 of 5 stars

An explicitly brutal portrayal of human relationships, addiction, sexual ache and emotional carnage this book repulsed and attracted me in a way that only Bukowski can. It fueled many conversations of how writers put themselves into their work on different levels, leading to several questions revolving around the one bit in the book where a man swiftly asks for a match and then slits a stranger’s throat all in a few minutes and without a second thought. Why was this man a genius. I don’t ...more
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Chris
01/04/08
Chris rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in October, 2007
recommended to Chris by: Christian B.
recommends it for: Buk fans who have already read the novels & some poetry and want something a little different
This was the first book of Buk's short stories I ever read. In my mind I keep twisting the title around trying somehow to get it to mean "you should read this book on the crapper" but it just won't fit. But ah who cares? It's an apt description anyway. In fact I bet the old dog would be proud to have his words mingling with the stench of a Sunday morning beershit. These short tales are full of crude humor, gutter-dwelling characters, alcoholism, addiction, depression, angst, misery, ad...more
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

J.P.
12/07/07
J.P. rated it: 2 of 5 stars

Read in February, 2008
recommends it for: insomniacs
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Logan
09/27/07
Logan rated it: 4 of 5 stars

The sociopathic and, sometimes, psychopathic tendencies of the characters in this book of short stories far outweighs any of the apathetic-coast-thru-life-and-just-get-by-ness of Henry Chinaski in the only other Bukowski book I've read so far, Factotum. I was surprised to see these clearly fictional stories from Bukowski as I had gotten the impression he's really more of a "creative non-fiction" writer than a maker-up-of-tales. So, it was good to read this book of short stories (most u...more
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Mark Bruce
12/23/08
Mark Bruce rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Read in December, 2008
Bukowski from the 60s when he was walking the line between titillation and literature. No one ever tap danced on that line the way Buk did. Lots of steamy, seamy sex. Lots of people doing other people wrong. Lots of funny, human moments. I read this right after I broke up with a crazy woman, so I really enjoyed his depiction of some of the wacko babes he encountered. Great thing about Buk? The men are just as evil, wacko, dissolute, lost.
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Quentin
12/11/08
Quentin rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Read in August, 2000
I know "Buk" is more celebrated as a poet, but for me his novels and short stories will always be front & center. It's a damn shame critics in his own country don't hold the same high opinion of his fiction as do readers in France, Germany and Italy. This collection of short stories is pure, unadulterated Bukowski: stark, well-honed sentences that connect like a left hook to the jaw, and a sardonic wit as sharp as barb wire.
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Jennpants
03/23/08
Jennpants added it

I´ve heard so much about Bukowski, people talk about him, love his work, etc.

So I finally picked up a copy of Hot Water Music to take with me while traveling.

I hated it. It was easy to get through and, admittedly, there were moments of brilliant succint-ness (spelled right? a real word?) where things were summed up neatly, wrapped up perfectly, in only a few small words...I liked that. That takes brains, thinking, restraint.

But really, how many stories about ...more
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Mark LaMountain
12/07/08
Mark LaMountain rated it: 5 of 5 stars

More stories, some of the Best Buk stories they is :) Hate everything? Think the world is some sick place where everything we value is falsely raised to be somehow important when it all actually means shit? This is the book for you. Bukowski got it, and he also managed to write some crazy shit about it and lucky for you it can be find just in these pages. Crack her open, and instead of being angry that he's such a douchebag, be furious that you're not.
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Jillian
03/11/09
Jillian rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Read in March, 2009
Wow, what an experience. This book is crude, gross and severely disturbing. That said, I couldn't put it down. The book consists of a series of very short stories, mostly about artists and writers and their circles. Main themes include drinking and sex, with some violence and death mixed in. Very few stories leave you feeling good, many leave you feeling dirty by association, but all leave you wanting to read more.
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

John
04/24/09
John rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Read in December, 2007
This is not an intellectual book. This is not a pretty book. There are no morals. Nobody wins. This is a gritty book filled with short stories about ugliness. I thought it was Bukowski's finest work.
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Kye Alfred Hillig
12/13/08
Kye Alfred Hillig rated it: 5 of 5 stars

This one is my second favorite Bukowski. Lots of weird ones in there. It seems like he was having a lot of fun on this. Just letting his mind roam to whatever strange place it wanted to go.
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Scott
03/01/08
Scott rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in February, 2005
recommends it for: Aspiring misanthropes
I picked up this book on a whim at a Barnes and Noble in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The first couple of stories seemed pretty edgy, but nothing over-the-top. The further I got, the more depraved the stories became--and yet, like a child peeking through his fingers during the gory parts of a horror movie, I was fascinated by these horrible, disgusting characters and the unspeakable acts some of them committed. Admittedly, this book is not for those with delicate sensibilities, but if you've go...more
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Farzane
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Mojgan Mehrabi
در کل کتاب جالبی بود اما شخصیت مزخرف نویسنده اش رو آشکار می کرد!!!
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Kim
03/09/09
Kim added it

i loved this one. a little crass, a little melodic...a good way to be reminded that we are just human
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment

Samantha
06/07/07
Samantha rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in March, 2006
recommends it for: assholes
i know it's lame - the only reason i bought this book was because of the modest mouse song named after bukowski, but with the lyric "god, who'd wanna be such an asshole?" i was instantly intrigued by this author. hot water music is a series of short stories that involve, in one way or another, assholes. modest mouse was right on. this guy horrifies, makes you very uncomfortable, disgusts you. he implants pity into your heart over his characters that never garner much sympathy themselve...more
Like this review?   yes  
  add a comment


« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 110 111


recent status updates | recommend it | blog it

موسیقی آب گرم
موسیقی آب گرم
Hot Water Music (Hardcover)
Hot Water Music / موسیقی آب گرم
Hot Water Music, Erzählungen (Taschenbuch)







quotes from this book

"Life's as kind as you let it be." More quotes...


groups with this book

Quirky humour






Post Office (Paperback) by Charles Bukowski
Ham on Rye: A Novel (Paperback) by Charles Bukowski
Women: A Novel (Paperback) by Charles Bukowski
Factotum (Paperback) by Charles Bukowski
Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977 (Paperback) by Charles Bukowski

More…