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17455296 No.17455296 [Reply] [Original]

>Don't try.
Whats your favorite work of his?

>> No.17455301

>>17455296
>his

>> No.17455322
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17455322

>>17455296
Ham on Rye easily. Based Buk, he's not highbrow enough for these lit chuds though

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>>17455322
Nice anon, i have never read any of his novels, mostly a fan of his poems, bluebird is my favorite.

>> No.17455369

>>17455296
I really enjoy his short stories and poems. "Alone With Everybody" and "Bluebird" were the two poems I recited during my exams at the end of high school. But his novels suck, he's trying too hard and it makes them boring.

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>>17455322
How did he age so badly? He was a Chad young

>> No.17455393

>>17455389
Lots of alcohol and cigarettes

>> No.17455397

that's not chad, that's chadlite
his midface is too long
many such cases

>> No.17455401

also early balding

>> No.17455415

>>17455369
Bluebird is very beautifully sad I feel. You can only truly be yourself when alone, and try as you might you will never be able to repress your emotions using whiskey and cigarettes or a rough exterior, they always are there, they never die out. Inside everyone has a bluebird

>> No.17455421

If you need to try then you already lost the game of life

>> No.17455422

>>17455296
Taxi Driver, Goodfellas. I liked The Irishman a lot too.

>> No.17455423

Post Office, though I was 15 when I read it. Not sure if it holds up, because whatever I read of him now never really does it for me. Some poems are sorta fun.

>> No.17455437

>>17455397
>hunter eyes
>killer cheekbones
>skinny
>full head of hair

He was definitely a Chad. I'd kill to look like that

>> No.17455444

>>17455401
>early balding
He had a full head if hair in his 60s

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>>17455397
This man has fucked enough pussy then your entire family line

Im so sick of this fucking chad chud onions beta cuck bullshit JUST FUCKING GO OUTSIDE AND TALK WITH A WOMAN

>> No.17455590

The captain is out..... is a good book, well I enjoyed it

>> No.17455636
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Tales Of Ordinary Madness

>> No.17455787

>>17455389
>chad young
>literally a deformed fuck who lost his virginity at 23 with an obese prostitute

>> No.17455791

Is there any book that compiles his entire prose? I just want to read it all, but i'm too lazy to search each book one by one.

>> No.17456071

>>17455296
>don't try
He didn't try his entire life and when he actually did it was life changing. Wtf did he mean by this?

>> No.17456100

>>17455296
>Women

Gave some good insight into what women were at 19 from the perspective of an alcoholic who got famous too quick

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>>17456071
You shouldn't try to be someone you're not. We should do what we love, and live life our own way. Bukowski didn't "try" to write, because he didn't write to be successful, or to be rich, he wrote because he loved writing, and couldn't live without it. In his own words: “Too many writers write for the wrong reasons.They want to get famous or they want to get rich or they want to get laid by the girls with bluebells in their hair...When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing, but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it. When it's stuffed in your ears, nostrils, under your finger nails.It's when there's no hope but that.” Bukowski says that if you have to try to do something,if you have to force yourself to do something, you should not do it at all. What you should do is that which you cannot live without doing, that which you love. Basically in the same way Bukowski found writing you should find your own path. You shouldn't try to cave it because it will only bring you pain.

>> No.17456373

>>17455389
He had heavy acne scars at that point, which are kind of hard to see in the picture. But if you saw him in real life, at that age, his face would have looked odd or even scary, like a killer in a movie.

>> No.17456773

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLqY6NtWpqY

>> No.17457182

>>17455389
He looked like nosferatu when he was young, very ugly. You aren’t a Chad just because you have cheek definition, especially when those cheeks are as pockmarked as the moon. Calling young Bukowski a Chad is a cope for ugly long faced niggas

>> No.17457244

>>17455296
The laughing heart

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

>> No.17457250

>>17456071
Don’t try. Do or do not. But don’t try

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>>17457182
Just because you don't like him doesn't make him ugly. His features are objectively Chad like. I agree he was an ugly old man, but he waa definitely a Chad young

>> No.17458395

>>17455296
I think people should appreciate Bukowski a lot more honestly. He was a very innovative writer and a personality. He lived a interesting life, wrote interesting and close to heart, Nahbare, books about it from the poetry he drunkenly coughed up every evening after breaking his back for thirty years.
Maybe I'm just a Bukowski fag. Don't try.