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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837549.Women?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Women" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1178787107m/837549.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837549.Women?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Women</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13275.Charles_Bukowski">Charles Bukowski</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13386352?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>In the words of a reviewer on Amazon, "First off, this book will offend people. It will probably offend you." This book hit a little too close to home (you could say I've met and loved this man in real life). At first, reading it was easy; the language is not complex and the material is the definition of "page-turner" - sex, love, drugs, alcohol - in raw, unapologetic realism. And then around page 200 it all became too much. Chinaski does another poetry reading, beds (and then rapes, though strangely enough he does not call this what it is) a new woman half his age, breaks another woman's heart... and drinks, drinks, drinks. I decided to finish the book, because I was more than 2/3 along the way, and I'm glad I did. Chinaski has a breakthrough eventually, and it is heartbreaking, no matter how much you may have grown to despise him. Whether he'll learn or not, who's to say? But then again, that's life right there. And Bukowski's prose, if nothing else, tells it like it is whether you want to read it or not. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/749415?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>