Women
 

Women

by Charles Bukowski

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life... (read more)

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Reverend AIDGnarl
  • Rated 5 stars

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this...

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axblue
  • Rated 2 stars

sexually graphic but not in the least erotic, alternately disturbing and hilarious - i'm not sure if i liked it.

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  • Rated 4.10728 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • Guy Jacobs

    guy jacobs said:

    I just started a Charles Bukowski Group on Shelfari, it is named The Charles Bukowski Reader, feel free to join

    posted Thursday, November 22 2007
  • Jason Roy

    jason roy said:

    Most people take his books with face value. Charles was a sad person who wrote books about being sad. Women is a book about a lonely person. He isn't ever happy with the women he had sex with. Love isn't just a synonym for sex. It's a cry for help.

    posted Wednesday, October 17 2007
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