Paperback, 208 pages
English language
Published June 14, 1980 by Ecco Press.
Work is death and bureaucracy is madness. Have a drink, a laugh, and a fuck, might make you feel better. Oh yeah, write, too. Must not forget that part.
Kanske mer 3.5
En sorts bakfylla efter 68 och hippietiden. En återgång till vardagslivets meningslöshet men nu i avsaknad av den amerikanska drömmen. Den postproletära och preprekära epokens litteratur.
I can’t imagine reading other Bukowski novels but I am glad I read this one. Product of the times, asshole, heightened reality fiction? I dunno. Henry is the hero for nobody but himself as I imagine Charles was.
Bukowski's first novel/Roman clef staring his alter ego. A quick, honest and funny read about life as a drunk womanizing mail man who likes the race track and doesn't care about his job. There's alot of recently published memoirs that try to write in this vein but Bukowski has something special whether it's his comic take, truth or what he leaves out. It works. Like watching Jerry Springer I felt better about life after reading his alter ego's.
I read Ham on Rye first, I think it's a marginally better novel, but they both get 5 stars.
Like a literary slap in the face. It sure woke me up!
Abandoned, 15% or so (Kindle edition).
Some people like Wuthering Heights and/or The Great Gatsby. I wonder, are they the same ones who like Post Office? The characters in both have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. They're nasty, brutish, unthinking, unkind. It is a torture to experience a world with them in it. I finished WH and TGG because I was young, foolish, and hopeful. This one, nope, life's too short.
derber shit
