Thoughts on Charles Bukowski?

No.

>>9386497
my gf just read Post Office and said it was hilarious...

I'll probably read it next but I've been reading the same book for almost a year...

>tfw your gf is more lit than you

>>9386497
He's a comfy, easy read. If you want to greatly amplify the "outcast with angst" experience you got from Catcher in the Rye, then he's for you.

>>9386497
I like him, but this is not a guilty pleasure thread

Degenerate, hedonistic, individualistic idiot, a true American douchero. I actually haven't read him

One of the greats. No matter what the pretentious fuckwads on here think. Watch The Bukowski Tapes. 4 hours of knowledge nuggets to keep you intrigued.

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>>9386666
Nice quads

I knew a girl who liked Bukowski. She was the kind of self destructive "muh depression" snowflake you'd imagine.

The way I see it, Barry, Bukowski is something you like in your teens and then move on.

>>9386748
>tfw 25
>just entered my "muh depression" snowflake phase now

I'm gonna end up homeless, aren't I?

>>9386497
Good short story writer, garbage poet.

>>9386748
A dated a girl exactly as you described but she was a Kerouac-pseud

>>9386497
His best book is Pulp, and it is a work of genius.

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>>9386554
This.

Bukowski is a fun read. Pour yourself a beer, light up a cigarette, get yourself a low-paying job and you're all set.

But yeah, guilty pleasure of mine.

>>9386999
Nice trips, but it definitely sounds like Bukowski is for me.

>Love to drink
>Discovered renewed passion in writing
>Love to drink
>Looking for low-pay job to simply pay the bills while I write
>Love to drink
>All set
>to drink

But to be fair though, fuck cigarettes. I'm not wasting my money on that bullshit. As for fighting, meh, I've come close to getting in a fight a few times but I never throw the first punch and being a pretty damn big guy the other person typically isn't too eager to throw the first one either.

I don't much mind him, but there isn't really a great deal of variation in his poetry. Read a number of his poems and he doesn't really surprise you much after that.

>>9386748
same with a girl i know

>>9386748
I fucked a Cortazar/Kerouac/Beat nut for a couple days straight.
Fun piece of ass, horrendous human being.

>>9386497
Plebmagnet supreme.

>>9386497
i like bluebird

>>9386497
Meme author/Used as a pseudointellectual excuse to drink and take drugs.

>>9386999
>used to be a big Bukowski fan in my late teens
>ten years later I'm actually an alcoholic working in a mail center
Don't try this at home, kids. Reading about it is way more fun.

>>9387022
You sound twelve.

>>9387085
That never happened

God who'd want to be such an asshole?

>>9388907
He was against drug use

>>9389018
I am not. I'm well into my 20s.

>>9386745
Fuark

>>9389026
>everyone's a virgin like me!

>>9389045
>mom rock

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>>9387022
>mfw got drunk at a party and end up fighting with a friend. He throws me on the floor and I hit the back of my head, the other guy somehow injured his forehead, I still don't know how it happened. The party imediatelly is over, everyone starts to exit, walking really fast as they're trying to avoid some upcoming outrageous stuff. I follow them as my friend scream at me complaining about how he's gonna explain his new fence to his mom. I stay silent. It's very clear that to him this is not over yet. He rushes at me, shouting. He wanna restart the fight or at least intimidate me. I just keep trying to walk straight. He's bigger and stronger than me. I'm drunk as fuck, no way I can win this fight.
I think, fuck that. He's a frenemy anyway. At least this is gonna make the things clear between us. I feel he coming closer in a threatening way. Meanwhile he says:
-My heart is upbeating.
As some anime hero who narrates his own moves.
I laugh mentally, ignoring the danger that's coming from my back. Then my bff shows up, hold him and tells him to calm down, probabiling saving my ass and giving him a good excuse not to fight. A week later they message me for another night of drinking, this time at a local bar. I don't answer to any of them . I don't feel like drinking after this event. I'm slightly paranoid this guy wanna some "compensation" and this is just a trap, even though I know this is pretty much stuff from my head. I also need to save some money for my new gear. I plan on not showing my face for a month or two. I'm a hikikomori anyway and my misoginist nature just kicked in.
Am I lit/?
Share stories of famous drunk writers

>>9391458
>Am I /lit/?

Well judging from that long, poorly written scrawl about some boring-ass fight you had you're not even close to /lit/

>>9386760
Better being homeless than a lit pseud

>>9391458
God this post makes you sound insufferable

Lame and boring. Like to masturbate dogs...

>>9386554
amplifying the outcast with angst from catcher in the rye?

this man is about to become my favourite writer

>>9393268
t. embryo