For good reason, a lot of people hate this book, and Charles Bukowski at large. The book is very hateable for a lot of reasons. It’s often misogynistic, slightly less so racist, but still plenty. The main character is a real piece of shit. He rapes someone in the first third of a novel, and it’s almost but not quite played for laughs. And at the very least he’s incredibly grotesque. At the same time, rereading this, especially in audiobook form, I get more about […]
Post Office
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
