Overrated

I notice someone else seems a little bitter...

He's probably not the greatest writer ever, but he's one of the few to explore, at lenght, the world of the drunk.

Sure, he's not brilliant all the time. And, as is the case with most alcoholics, he didn't mature very well. But from Barfly, Hostage, and "The Bukowski Tapes" alone, you can see that the man had something going for him. He's definitely in better form when he has someone to jeer him or cheer him. And he's the patron saint of most drunks. As a former drunk, hopefully you could at least see him as a source of light for those in troubled times.

Unless you consider reveling in drunkenness to be trite and boring, at least try to look at it as a tourist. Beautiful while you visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

ramblingbanjer, you are a fiery furnace i kid you not.

a little secret. english ale is a required taste. most of us under the age of 40 drink cheap larger. that is what makes us dirty horrible gutter snipes. as a man of class and distinction i don't go for that and i love guiness, and eastern european largers, like the czech beers, the best in the world, really, beer was perfected in eastern europe centuries ago. also look into tiger beer from china, and cobra from india. very dry and crisp, cold and distinctive beers. bud is anything but a beer. let alone a king of 'em. but i know you already know that.

i drank a strawberry infused larger last night in a pub called the spaniard's arms near hampstead haeth in london, and it was like a puree with a like of hops. i loved it but only one pint, a little sickly for the intrepid boozehound.

right now i've got stickey fingers ringing out loud. guess the boozing stones have me in a tight fist, but i'll shake it off as the local is calling and i'm feeling frisky on the pool table...

try to keep a close eye on the scene, it'll take you if you let it,

draughtboy.



'with the ability to be able to do anything that he wants to do and findin' nothin'.' rumble fish

26 here, sobriety for 6 months now, and Bukowski is still a comfortable place to be. Bukowski was more or less a Beat and therefore represents the two prominent writing styles thereof: the narrative and poetry. Both turning an optimistic eye to the socially defeated. Narratives by nature are self indulgent. Bukowski is known as the Blue Collar Poet Laureate for a reason. He writes about the simple joys and annoyances of the everyday American male, including sex with woman whose reputations are not white and glowing, hangovers, and the workaday world. His work can be somewhat repetitive, but I see it as contributing to consistency of character. Bukowski is the warm, dark corner where I go to relax.

(Sorry if this seems a bit rambly, it is late . . .)

yes, bukowsky is overrated in the sense that everyone in this generation is reading him, and considering that hes just AVERAGE. He's just a very hyped writter, probably because all the bathroom jokes and drunken violence in his books, yet if you strip the books away from that, youll see that all in all, he writes very sappy american stories.

if you don't like him anymore
would
you like to sell the books?

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Im personally sick of people with the whole God Damn overrated thing. If anythings truly overrated, it's always declaring stuff is overrated. Can't we do something new? Why don't we call them all witches instead.

i dont drink or do anything at all and he is my favorite writer and probably always will be