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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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| Yo MovieBuff, I know what you mean about Post Office. I like anything Bukowski, dry and otherwise. Women is classic. I have heard Ham ON Rye is better and my buddy who's opinion matters to me says Factotem is his best. Perfume is probably one of the most descriptive books I have ever read. It was made into a film in 2007 and they did a very good job adapting it considering I was under the assumption that it couldn't be done, but they left out one of my favorite parts of the book entirely basically. So that was disappointing. The book is incredible though. The reason I read it was because I read an article about Kurt Cobain that said Scentless Apprentice was based on the book. Great song on a great book. Irvine Welsh has a thick Scottish accent in his writing and for that reason, tough to follow sometimes. I would read Trainspotting first maybe to see if you like it. If I remember any more I will let you know... gotta jog the cobwebs loose to remember what I have read off hand. My collection has taken many hits on many a move and my memory apparently too. |
I've read pretty much all of Bukowski's work (although not all of his poetry of course..you'd have to be really obsessed to go that far!)
I'd rank Post OFfice and Factotum as his best, followed by Ham on Rye. His other full length novels I could live without (I think he just started writing for comedy's sake starting with Women). His short story collections (South of No North, Hot Water Music) are great though. I'd like to check out Kem Nunn from your list. |
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nero
Joined: 11 Mar 2009
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books:
Henry miller - Nexus, tropic of Cancer
Huxley - After many a summer
Satre - the age of reason
Janet Frame - to the Is-land
Orwell - keep the apisdistra flying
Burroughs - Junky, Queer
James leo herlihy - midnight cowboy
Plath - the belljar
Hess - steppenwolf, Demian
Thomas Mann - the magic mountain
Salinger - Catcher in the rye, Franny and Zooey
Voonegut - cat's cradle
Dickens - Great Expectations
Kipling - Kim
Murakami - the wind up bird Chronicle
Movies:
Jodorowsky's El topo, the Holy Mountain
Fellini's - 8 and a half
Midnight Cowboy
An angel at my table
Sweetie
buffalo 66
Gummo
Jackie Brown
the Shining
Bully
Apocalyspe now
Warhol's Flesh |
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