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glowfish36's review
3.0
I read "Post Office" first and didn't like it much. However, I'd already checked out this book from the library, so I felt I had to read it.
I liked it less than "Post Office"; it appears the author's style is not for me. Oh well.
I liked it less than "Post Office"; it appears the author's style is not for me. Oh well.
riorda15's review
3.0
Really hit or miss for me. Some of the short stories were completely incredible and other were not and probably lived up to the title better in the process. When he goes on and on about all the women he wants to rape I sort of check out. The story about the women with her personal zoo was weird and amazing though.
daniel1201's review
dark
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
dongchiot's review against another edition
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
scrapespaghetti's review
3.0
Chapter 5 / 01:19:03
thanks I don't eat
Chapter 6 / 01:33:59
zen master
"The human race had always disgusted me. Essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which like a sore, a leprosy, became then: your next door neighbor, your neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation ... everybody grabbing each other’s assholes in the honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity."
Chapter 33 / 08:13:34
THE BIG POT GAME
the potheads make too much about their damned pot and the public makes too much about their using their damned pot.[...] give the human race anything and they’ll scrabble and scratch and pewk all over it. [...]
to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you – that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think. or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games a season. or Vietnam or israel or the fear of spiders. your love washing her yellow false teeth in the sink before you screw.
there are basic answers and there are ticklers. we are still playing with the ticklers because we are not yet men enough or real enough to say what we need. for some centuries we thought it might be Christianity. after throwing the Christians to the lions we let them throw us to the dogs. we found Communism might be a little better for the average man’s belly but did little for his soul. now we play with drugs, thinking it will open doors. the East has been on the stuff longer than gunpowder. they find they suffer less, die more. to pot or not to pot. “we goin’ to M-a-li-booo, man! yeah, we’re goin’ to Malllll-i-bOOOOO!”
Pardon me while I roll a bit of Bull Durham.
wanta drag?"
Chapter 34 / 08:17:58
Do not care for SUCCEED
thanks I don't eat
Chapter 6 / 01:33:59
zen master
"The human race had always disgusted me. Essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which like a sore, a leprosy, became then: your next door neighbor, your neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation ... everybody grabbing each other’s assholes in the honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity."
Chapter 33 / 08:13:34
THE BIG POT GAME
the potheads make too much about their damned pot and the public makes too much about their using their damned pot.[...] give the human race anything and they’ll scrabble and scratch and pewk all over it. [...]
to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you – that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think. or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games a season. or Vietnam or israel or the fear of spiders. your love washing her yellow false teeth in the sink before you screw.
there are basic answers and there are ticklers. we are still playing with the ticklers because we are not yet men enough or real enough to say what we need. for some centuries we thought it might be Christianity. after throwing the Christians to the lions we let them throw us to the dogs. we found Communism might be a little better for the average man’s belly but did little for his soul. now we play with drugs, thinking it will open doors. the East has been on the stuff longer than gunpowder. they find they suffer less, die more. to pot or not to pot. “we goin’ to M-a-li-booo, man! yeah, we’re goin’ to Malllll-i-bOOOOO!”
Pardon me while I roll a bit of Bull Durham.
wanta drag?"
Chapter 34 / 08:17:58
Do not care for SUCCEED
mattia_masciadra's review against another edition
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
yxsminxs's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
gearyofbooks's review
4.0
Bukowski has a way of tapping into the mind and soul. Not all of the book is easy reading, some views and approaches are dated or downright wrong. Maybe that's the plan? To revile the monster but appreciate the acceptance of self? Either way for every questionable section there are easily 3/4 thought provoking sections. A great read. One to go back too.