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    <body><![CDATA[Mellower but better with age]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A thin stew indeed. You know, I've been in a couple of bar fights because of my dislike of Bukowski. (Okay, they were more like bar screaming matches, followed by a swift eighty-sixing.) I used to worship him, too, but then I sobered up. . . so to speak. But I found that he has so many idiot sons (a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17756677">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A decent collection of Hank's works, but it's not Hank at the top of his powers.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[No one writes like the Barfly, and man oh man do I need writers like him.  Good old Buk doesn't let us down in his &quot;old age&quot;.  Saw a picture of his little Southern California bungalow recently, frigging spooky, that guy warn't even human I don't think.  His poems on disc, such as &quot;70 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22097446">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[VERY interesting.  This is a charming collection of poetry and a few stories, but it's definitely a bit... toothless for the Buk.  Having recently seen &quot;Born Into This&quot; and knowing now about the Buddhist turn he took near the end of his life, this collection actually makes a lot of sense. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1924567">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a blast from my past.  I remember the first time I read Bukowski was when I was in 11th grade laying on the bedroom floor of my friend Emily's house reading Bukowski together....then picked this up again sometime in my first attempt at college.  His dark realism.....I could relate to in thos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35059356">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Generally, I like his stories and love his poems. Here's a snipet from poem 'the click of miracle'<br/><br/>&quot;such small moments - keep - people alive. - such small moments - so large - when - it - all - comes togeher - and - holds&quot; <br/><br/>Huh. the horses never seemed soo relevant.  ...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first intro to Bukowski was, oddly enough, at a lounge bar in Las Vegas and this was it.  I can not thank that person enough for having a copy on him (I don't know either) and it was so spectacular it was reason to go find so much more of his work.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wrote a big long review of this book about one of my heros, Bukowski, about how he was a brilliant s.o.b. but I'm sort of done now. It was good, you'll just have to trust me on that. The book is good, too.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This contains my favorite Bukowski poetry.  His early poems bore me to tears, but I think he was onto something later in life.  The stories are great too.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this when i was too young, and need to read it again. i'm gonna wait a lil while though--takin a breather from miller and bukowski.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i can only do self-pity for so long.<br/>bukowski needs to stand up, and be a man. <br/>but its still highly entertaining. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love everthing this man writes.  A big F-you to the world, yet so needy and fragile.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The best poet I have ever read. The Fighter is my favorite poem.]]></body>
    
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