false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176517852m/632901.jpg 632901 5 <P> <P>Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994). </P> 3702 5 6 1999 What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire total:878|5:367|4:339|3:152|2:18|1:2| 878 3685 1107 42 4 0 false false Sun Dec 07 21:24:05 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 23:04:07 -0800 2008
in this book, i keep coming back to "white dog":

I went for a walk on Hollywood Bou...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 14:48:17 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 15:47:47 -0700 2009 I liked him as an author with a couldn't...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Nov 03 09:08:59 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 09:08:59 -0700 2007 too little
or too late

too fat
too thin
or too bad

laughter or
tears
or immaculate
unconcern...


-from "the crunch (2)"

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On the downside, the fact that he is clearly the spe...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 13 17:28:25 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 18:06:15 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 19:56:48 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 21:47:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 19:52:30 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 20:19:12 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 07:31:51 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 16:08:04 -0700 2009
After reading this book, which is the first I had ever read from Bukowski, and then going on to read his novels I understood why my friend told me what he did.

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And yet not.

Because no man who is completely self absorbed could love dogs this much. I love him because he loves dogs.

Also my mother LOVES this book.

So good for CB for being a poet when it isn't glamorous and for ...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 27 09:20:33 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 12:42:47 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Apr 23 23:20:54 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 23:23:07 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Sep 29 12:16:29 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 12:17:48 -0700 2008 is so raw it hurts, and his poetry taught me how to
crack apart the academic shell and to read and live
poetry as life lived, not as life imagined.]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Aug 19 20:08:15 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 20:17:45 -0700 2007
After reading this book, I felt like I needed to brush my teeth.

Loved it.]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 09 10:03:31 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 18:33:45 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=632901