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    <body><![CDATA[I used to have a poster of this hanging in my hallway. It was a color reproduction of the cover. A girlfriend bought it for me. This was years ago. I was much younger and more serious. I would go for long walks in the town I lived in. I would try to write books. I would read Bukowski and I would ord...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17803469">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Take away a noir detective's story, his class, his street smarts, and write an entire book without ever giving him a reason to live. Welcome to Nick Belane's world in &quot;Pulp.&quot; <br/><br/>This is crime fiction that is just too real and too surreal at the same time. Do we ever really believe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14275719">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The brilliantly constructed Nick Belane is the main character of this novel, and leads the reader through his life as an middle-age private dick in the seediest parts of Hollywood.  Nick alternates between depression and euphoria in his own ego.  He laments for humanity and himself, both of which he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2240417">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well I have finally ran across a Bukowski book I don't like. Cliche ridden detective story, (yes I realize that some of those cliches were put there intentionally, but still) and Bukowskis attempts at humor for the most part fall flat.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[پیشنهاد نمی‌کنم. گویا قرار بوده هجویه‌ای باشه بر رمان‌های کارآگاهی. اما چیزی که من دیدم بیشتر سردرگمی و پراکندگی بود. نمی‌دونم چقدر میشه انداخت گردن مترجم. چون ترج...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64060916">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this book in one night, it was a great private detective story with lots of fights and booze. This is the first of many Bukowski I will read. As cliché as the detective story has become this is the first one I have read and its takes it as close to it as possible. At times the story becomes st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75144142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pulp is the title of Charles Bukowski's final novel before his death in 1994. As huge Bukowski admire, i was excited to read his take on the detective &quot;pulp&quot; genre. He portrays himself as Private Detective Nick Belane, and we follow him as tries to solve four different cases. Between barro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63614005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's not what one would expact from Bukowski. It is definitely his style but combined with the surreality of a goast city. Kind of sin citish noir, supernatural detective story (!?!) Who would have thought... And the irony here is that the novel is dedicated to.. bad writing. <br/><br/>As Garrett ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68985751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure why I like reading Bukowski's low-life characters so much.  I guess it's just plain fun and entertaining.  Perhaps it represents a life that I would like to live...well, for a few days anyway.  This story follows a couple weeks of the life of Nick Belane, the self-proclaimed &quot;best ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80168556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is hilarious. If you like The Naked Gun series, or some other sort of mock-cop-drama slapstick this is a great read.<br/><br/>This was the first novel I've read by Bukowski, although having read his short stories this is not much like he usually writes. <br/><br/>My favorite parts of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41936782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Years ago, I became quite taken with Bukowski's poetry; the ribald and salacious, if not genuine, depictions of his psyche and idiosyncrasies were quite engrossing to me, and I thought him a worthy poet of study and admiration.  My ruminations with poetry instructors, however, about Bukowski's work ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27358847">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I must admit that I was interested in reading this book because there is a song about Charles Bukowski by Modest Mouse that has always stuck with me.  I knew him to be a modern American author and poet but grouped him in that lexicon of academic literature that I would never get around to reading.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2601323">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is fast-paced and entertaining, yet it still retains a literary significance within the writing. Bukowski takes his narrator from level-headed to totally psycho in 3.5 seconds, and back again. He is obsessed with death, perceiving himself to be completely surrounded by it. He's a private d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68922602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pulp is not your standard Bukowski novel.  After reading the entire Chinaski series (which are all incredibly humorous), I read the first 50 pages and admittedly felt as though I had been cheated out of my last good Bukowski novel.  Did he sell out, give up, was he forced to write this?  Despite my ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58886283">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Doesn't take long to recognize Bukowski's voice in this noir genre novel. Protagonist Nicky Belane is part Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, and part Hunter S. Thompson. But instead of the moderate daily whiskey intake of Spade and Marlowe, Belane is a straight-up drunk. Instead of getting away with all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36876979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64622877">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 23 04:27:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 04 08:10:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[عامه پسند بوکوفسکی جز کتاب هایی بود که یک نفس خوانده می شود . من حتی یک لحظه هم به خودم اجازه ندادم کتاب را زمین بگذارم . کتاب با توجه به اینکه آخرین کتاب بوکوفسکی است و ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64622877">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38075786">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 18 14:35:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because my friend who doesn't read likes the author.  He said Bukowski was lewd and vulgar, which is why I read the book.  But, I was disappointed.  I am not a big fan of the whole detective saying corny things type of book, which this was.  I think this was Bukowski's last book he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38075786">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[in this book John galt comes out and he is in a bar and he is drinking, go figure, big suprise, but i liked this book, i read it a couple of years ago, and then i saw the coen bros movie intolerable cruelty, and there were many similarities between both these works, but i believe the bukowski is sti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28574114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6861804">
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess it wasn't a good start for reading Bukowski, I should have chosen one of the more biographic novels like Post Office or something like that. <br/>Pulp was easy to read and fun because it was very dynamic, also funny but mainly 'cause of the absurd argument. Afterward I learnt that pulp fict...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6861804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i extracted this yarn over two inter-state flight sessions just after xmas 08 - i really liked it, although i find the heavy booze vibe not really to my taste - i feel there's a better narrative structure within the tale but overall enjoyed it and was moved by its auto-biographical insight - a perfe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50838657">more...</a>]]></body>
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