>It’s cold and late. Too cold and late to be sitting in a truck unless you said the word “ICU” in the last hour, and even then you should let the thing warm up first, put some music on the radio, prepare a thermos. But I consider this an exercise in budget shock treatment. I can’t make my brain work. The only thing I want to do is finally stop existing somewhere. I don’t want to actively die, I want to passively evaporate.
Why haven't you read him yet?
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But I have read him user.
Prose is freaking weak user
What do you think of him?
>unless you said "ICU" in the last hour
chills
The man is one of my absolute favorites. Peiple forget how funny he can be, as is the case with most brilliant men. Took me awhile to find this but it's one of my favorite passages:
"It’s the most nowhere place on earth, so the temptation is overpowering to make it somewhere.For about six months I’ve been doing this by planning a bank robbery.See, there’s a bank at the end of this strip mall.It’s not one of the big popular banks with nice signs where you hear ambient discussion about new housing developments.It’s one of those banks where people go to quietly withdraw forty dollars and deposit a roll of quarters and get the hell out."
i just picked up ham on rye
hes shit i will now write a bukowski poem
"CIGGARETTE PUSSY COFFE (BLACK) EXISTENTIAL PAIN MUH DICK BIX NOOOD MUFUGGHA2
you forgot the alcohol you faggot
good one..
Is his prose worth reading?
There have been two examples provided in this thread.
he's comfy as hell, user
and the horse racing
bump
What are some authors like Bukowski but with more descriptive prose?
and the alca seltzers
Dostoyevsky.
what the ACTUAL fuck
Unironically: Dante Alighieri.
>Dante
>Prose
hm..
What is verse if not the most heightened prose possible? Bitch.
No need to sign your posts, this is supposed to be an anonymous site.
why do i keep seeing that joke on here? it's not funny
weird of you to end your post with the word 'it's' but anyway, no need to sign your post.
Try pic related. It's quintessential Bukowski.
If the opening grabs you, you can find it in various places on the web, including a pdf here:
oops.
www.schlegelweb.npage.de/get_file.php?id=15134329&vnr=929907
it's formatted a bit odd, but all the text is there.
*re-reading it, i see a lot of typos, however.
>some authors like Bukowski but with more descriptive prose?
But he describes things just right, not too many words, nor too few. Pic related.
I had 10 of his books. Now it's like 8 or something. Great writing although it's like Hemingway's - you can't read this guy's work all the time because it becomes boring if you totally binge it.
His best prose is "The Most Beautiful Woman In Town", "Ham on Rye" and "South of No North". His best poems are:
1) "Me": nerdytalksbookblog.wordpress.com
2) "Alone With Everybody" english-for-students.com
3) "The Laughing Heart" milan-poetry.blogspot.com
Great poet, but his prose could be better. When I had my exams and I had to answer not in paper but orally I was a lucky, becuase the topic was existential pain and I actualy recited those three poems along with "Bluebird". And Bukowski turned out to be my examiner's favourite poet so the guy was really harsh and specific with his questions. Got 88%
Selby Jr.
Agree
OP's post is by Kaleb Horton:
Yeah, I was wondering when someome would find out. This was simultaneously my tribute to and mockery of him.
Tribute in the sense that he used to do this kind of thing all the time, attribute the words of a famous person to another and stuff like that. It's how he even started making a name for himself. And the mockery because, well, he's of the Bukowski school but lies to himself about it.
I would discourage mockery here. He wrote something heartfelt, if a little unoriginal. Mockery makes the world even uglier imo.
Sure. Kaleb is a good guy and a decent writer. He can be a little self important. And that's fun to poke at sometimes. That's all.
>There was nothing really as glorious as a good beer shit-I mean after drinking twenty or twenty-five beers the night before. The odor of a beer shit like that spread all around and stayed for a good hour-and-a-half. It made you realize that you were really alive.
Yeah, think I'll pass OP
>reads only for prose
You disgust me.
Louis -Ferdinand Celine
Bukowski is proto alt-lit hack
shut fuck up
prose is all their is. anyone who claims he/she reads for anything other than prose is ignorant or lying