Laura's review
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Bukowski does a number on the post office. Seems like an insane institution, and yet he stuck with them for twelve years.
Favorite scenes: Spending Christmas with an old girlfriend, they are drinking and he falls asleep near the Christmas tree. Then, "Something awakened me. I opened my eyes. Just in time to see the huge tree covered with hot lights, lean slowly toward me, the pointed star coming down like a dagger. I didn't quite know what it was. It looked like the end of the world."
Tending to the same woman when she's in the hospital. Questioning nurses why they don't do anything to help her when she's dying. Asking, "Why do you just let them die? What's the sin in being poor?"
I love that a man who can be so vulgar at times, is also never without humor, or heartache. I think above all he is a survivor, and a hard worker, who never takes small pleasures in life for granted.
Favorite scenes: Spending Christmas with an old girlfriend, they are drinking and he falls asleep near the Christmas tree. Then, "Something awakened me. I opened my eyes. Just in time to see the huge tree covered with hot lights, lean slowly toward me, the pointed star coming down like a dagger. I didn't quite know what it was. It looked like the end of the world."
Tending to the same woman when she's in the hospital. Questioning nurses why they don't do anything to help her when she's dying. Asking, "Why do you just let them die? What's the sin in being poor?"
I love that a man who can be so vulgar at times, is also never without humor, or heartache. I think above all he is a survivor, and a hard worker, who never takes small pleasures in life for granted.
who is this charles bukowski character??
