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More Notes Of A Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011)

by Charles Bukowski(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0872865436 (ISBN13: 9780872865433)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

City Lights Publishers

review 1: As a man who prides himself on having read everything Bukowski ever put to paper, I don’t know how this new collection managed to stay under my radar for so long. It would appear that three years ago City Lights (yo, Ferlinghetti, when you gonna publish my poems!) scraped enough stuff together to come out with one more Buke (rhymes with puke) collection. Which speaks volumes (literally) of the man’s prolificacy. Here he is in the ground 17 years, and still he’s churning out the hits like some literary Lazarus (or Tupac Shakur, if you will). At any rate, you can imagine my surprise when I stumbled across this in my local bookstore. It was like finding the Holy Grail in a trash heap, because even when Bukowski is bad, he is still better than 90% of the stuff out there... more. Which brings me to the content of this book. Is every piece a gem –no. But it’s still worth the price of admission in my opinion. All the Bukowski mainstays are here: horse betting, broads, and booze. Would we want it any other way? So, grab a six pack, peel the cap off a pint of Ten High, and flick your bic; because The Dirty Old Man is back for one more round!
review 2: "Proving that misanthropic and humanitarian are two sides of the same tarnished coin and that stagnation and metamorphosis are equally related, this collection arcs subtly from the banal side of addiction to the most extreme forms of love and hate. Bukowski's prose is still relevant, still shocking, still transcendent."-- Publishers Weekly, 8/1/2011"In another installment of his essays and ramblings, City Lights press have surely come up with a winner. These are essentially Bukowski's articles for John Bryan's Open City Press, for Nola Express, for the Los Angeles Free Press. His early reputation, as a cult writer around Los Angeles, is partially built upon these iconoclastic columns where they gave him cart blanche to write whatever came into his head, and he invariably did just that. Even today some of his articles come across as quite shocking after all these years." -- Beat Scene Magazine"He's been gone since 1994, but Charles Bukowski continues to fascinate us. His tales of sex, drugs,and booze, and more sex, drugs, and booze, ad infinitum, resonate a lurid energy that grabs our attention and keeps it." -- SF Weekly less

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