Bukowski discussion

Hello all. I am new in the group and want to share this with you. I read the book "PULP" from Chinaski once a year, at least. I think it is a perfect book. I smile a lot while reading, i underline a lot of phrases i find out to be brilliant and generally i love to read it because it let me feel good. What do you think about it and about the book?

Jt wrote: "I am a curious thinker especially when it comes to Beat culture.
Henry Chinaski reminds me a bit like Sal Paradise & Dean Moriarty.
I never read Pulp by the dirty old man. Perhaps i should. Bono ..."
If you have never read PULP you should immediatly amend! Go AFK and read it in the real world. It is a fantastic book, entertaining, interesting, well writen and full of gags.

Personally I thought Pulp was okay but not perfect. I liked the way he wrote about death at the end. You can tell Bukowski was thinking about his own mortality. I think Bukowski’s best work is (some of) his poetry. And Ham on Rye.

Hi Alex, you are right, it is not perfect, but it seems to be a rush writing (something you write without thinking). It is much more similar to a joke, because if you read it in my language it is pretty hilarious.

Hi Jt, AFK means Away From Keyboard. I intended to say to you "leave the keyboard and go read it now, from a real phisycal book". About the Beat Generation, we had a great journalist (Fernanda Pivano) who wrote a lot about it, and Buk is in. She also had a crush on Hemyngway, Kerouac and so on. Read her too.

kobaino aka wrote: "Hello all. I am new in the group and want to share this with you. I read the book "PULP" from Chinaski once a year, at least. I think it is a perfect book. I smile a lot while reading, i underline ..."
I thought I might be the only one who reads Pulp roughly once a year; it is one of the finest books I own, and still makes me laugh out loud.