Jesse's review
Hot Water Music
by Charles Bukowski
Jesse's review
Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski
Jesse's review
rating:
This was the first Bukowski I ever read. It was a serious eye-opener. Naive of me I know, but in a way I didn't think people could write stuff like this, publish stuff like this. It's easy enough to get hung on the more lascivious aspects, the drinking and the sex and the violence, but what really set him apart was his honesty, and his lack of fear in expressing things about himself that are unpalatable, unflattering, and the way he makes me laugh with him, at him. It taught me how to really laugh at myself.
