Bess's review
Women: A Novel
by Charles Bukowski
Bess's review
Women: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Bess's review
rating:
Eh. This definitely had its laugh-out-loud moments, but mostly it read like a trashy mass-market romance for boys. I'm friends with people who can write better porn than this in their sleep. I'm just not feeling the talent. Maybe it's because my own generation is long since over the idea that someone from the working class could also -- gasp! -- be a writer? I won't dismiss him entirely without first reading some of his poetry, though.
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*UPDATE*
Okay, now this is funny:
"Lydia, sex isn't everything! You are obsessed. For Christ's sake, give it a rest."
"A rest until your leg heals? How am I supposed to make it meanwhile?"
"I'll play Scrabble with you."
Lydia screamed. The car began to swerve all over the street. "YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH! I'LL KILL YOU!"
She crossed the double yellow line at high speed, directly into oncoming traffic. Horns sounded and cars scattered. We drove on against the flow of traffic, cars approaching us peeling off to the left and right. Then just as abruptly Lydia swerved back across the double line into the lane we had just vacated.
Were are the police? I thought. Why is it that when Lydia does something the police become nonexistent?...more
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*UPDATE*
Okay, now this is funny:
"Lydia, sex isn't everything! You are obsessed. For Christ's sake, give it a rest."
"A rest until your leg heals? How am I supposed to make it meanwhile?"
"I'll play Scrabble with you."
Lydia screamed. The car began to swerve all over the street. "YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH! I'LL KILL YOU!"
She crossed the double yellow line at high speed, directly into oncoming traffic. Horns sounded and cars scattered. We drove on against the flow of traffic, cars approaching us peeling off to the left and right. Then just as abruptly Lydia swerved back across the double line into the lane we had just vacated.
Were are the police? I thought. Why is it that when Lydia does something the police become nonexistent?...more
