The Gnome King reviewed Women by Charles Bukowski
Review of 'Women' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
How do I rate a book on here with 6 stars?
When I was a teenager this book was the first dirty novel I read and it was the point I became obsessed with Bukowski. Now reading this many years later I still love this book, it still feels really dirty too. Bukowski is the ultimate rock-star of the poetry world and this book is the proof.
Bukowski will shag any woman who is up for it, he'll treat them mean and in some cases drive them insane, he makes mistakes and doesn't learn from them cos he doesn't care, he is making up for lost time. He writes in his typical honest style having no shame he tells you all the gross details.
A lot of things/people annoy him and those things tend to annoy me too, one of the best lines in the book is about one of …
How do I rate a book on here with 6 stars?
When I was a teenager this book was the first dirty novel I read and it was the point I became obsessed with Bukowski. Now reading this many years later I still love this book, it still feels really dirty too. Bukowski is the ultimate rock-star of the poetry world and this book is the proof.
Bukowski will shag any woman who is up for it, he'll treat them mean and in some cases drive them insane, he makes mistakes and doesn't learn from them cos he doesn't care, he is making up for lost time. He writes in his typical honest style having no shame he tells you all the gross details.
A lot of things/people annoy him and those things tend to annoy me too, one of the best lines in the book is about one of those annoyances, here it is...
"I had just been wished a "Happy New Year" by a local idiot news broadcaster on t.v. I disliked being wished a "Happy New Year" by some stranger. How did he know who I was? I might be a man with a 5-year-old child wired to the ceiling and gagged, hanging by her ankles as I slowly sliced her to pieces."
