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Title: Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0-87685-557-5 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: September, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.76 (87 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Every woman should read this book
Comment: Every woman should read this book but I suspect few will. Written in the form of an autobiography, which follows the life of Henry (or Hank) who grows up in a poverty stricken home, is an outsider, dreamer, and who develops a truly horrifying case of acne/boils which makes him an object of disgust as well, it is characterised by two outstanding qualities: honesty and clarity. Mr Bukowski eschews the adjective and the adverb and like another great writer of clear English, George Orwell, it is a pleasure to read. As a former boy I can relate to many experiences that young Henry has at school, with gangs, with girls, with teachers, with parents, that seem to be of universal application. The revelation he experiences when he is praised for an "essay" he writes at school on witnessing President Roosevelt visiting, when the essay is a complete fabrication, is revelatory for the reader too. There are other such moments in this great read. One is when students in Henry's class share a joke with their teacher, and they laugh, and laugh, together; another is the sexual games another teacher plays with them and the boys feel they are truly in love with her, and she with them. There is much HUMANITY in this book. Compassion, sadness and the understanding of what it is to be human in the 20th century in America, is in this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: His Best novel
Comment: I am a poetry man, and as such think that Bukowski is the best American poet ever. I have read almost all his writings, and truly, although I liked them and laughed, I dont think his novels are half as good as his poetry books. I laughed with WOMEN and with HOLLYWOOD, FACTOTUM and POST OFFICE. PULP was a wonderful change. But I think that HAM is his best novel, it's the story of Chinasky from his childhood until the last days of his virginity. It's much more delicate and sensual than his more sexual prose, and we can really see the good and bad in Chinasky's mother and father, and a great description of the 30's, and the depression era.
Yes, read this and you'll want all his books, Bukowski is a genius and his fame will only grow in years to come. Now the man is not here phisically to prevent it from happening. And as Buk says: "some people never die and some people never live." Buk will never die.
Rating: 5
Summary: Funny
Comment: This is the funniest books I have ever read. Bukowski knows where it is at and knows what to do. Just read.
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Title: Post Office by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0876850867 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: October, 1981 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Women by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0876853904 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: October, 1981 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0872860744 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: June, 1981 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Hollywood by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0876857632 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Factotum by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0876852630 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: June, 1975 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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