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Title: Ask the Dust by John Fante, Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0-87685-443-9 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: June, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (60 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than Chinaski
Comment: Sorry, Charlie. This is the book bukowski was TRYING to write when he wrote FACTOTUM. I love Bukowski, but this is the real thing. It hangs in there. Fante turns the camera on the main character while the others are mere foils for deeper probing. Whereas Bukowski builds a picture of society around his characters, Fante here truly explores values and value through one man's eyes. If you pick this book up and hate it, read it anyway. If you don't understand it, struggle through. If the only other book you've read is the bible, read this. Feel free to be offended, feel rejection and dejection. If you love Bukowski, you'll really like this. If you don't love Buk, that's okay too because Fante keeps the story moving without taking us all the way into the gutter. -Mike
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best books I've ever read.
Comment: First off, I'd like to say that I'm not a huge fan of Fante, unless he's writing about Arturo Bandini. Arturo is so full of character and so full of life that any story involving him will quickly become a thrill ride. Ask the dust is about a writer who has had very little luck, but the minute amount of attention he has gotten he has quikly boasted and inflated to the point that he considers himself one of the greatest American writers. Anything that happens in his life, good or bad, is quickly ran through his delusional mind and becomes an amazing event. This book also really addresses the fact that when people are in love, it's very rare that the love is equal, and often you only love the people who treat you badly and reject people who care too much for you. This is a book that's very easy for many people to relate to.
Rating: 5
Summary: The theft of American culture
Comment: Bukowski was right! This is a great work of American fiction set in the Los Angeles area during the height of the Great Depression. Fortunately the author John Fante did not live to see the theft of his work by the director Robert Towne who will turn this book into a major motion picture and attempt to recreate LA in SOUTH AFRICA in exchange for foreign subsidies, thereby creating Depression-era conditions for American film workers who will be jobless due to corporate greed. Read the book -- boycott the movie.
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Title: The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante ISBN: 0876856490 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: December, 1985 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante ISBN: 0876855540 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: April, 1983 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Dreams from Bunker Hill by John Fante ISBN: 0876855281 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: March, 1982 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0876855575 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: September, 1982 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand D. Celine, Ralph Manheim ISBN: 0811208478 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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