Is liking Bukowski reddit?

I read a lot of his poems and Post Office. I like them but I wonder if I should read more or is it reddit?

male rupi kaur.

>>24545807 (OP)
If you mean, "Should I avoid Bukowski because he’s meretricious?" then no. Within his limits he’s very good; much more skilful than people realize. (For one thing, he's funny almost all the time. When random idiots try to write like him they’re never funny.) Reading him will do you no harm at all.

If you mean, "Should I avoid Bukowski because reddit users like him and I might get lumped in with them?" then still no. You shouldn't avoid doing the right thing for the right reasons just because some people are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Forget reddit.

You may not like it, but this is what the literary lifestyle looks like.

>>24545807 (OP)
Asking if something is reddit is reddit.

>>24546185
Wtf why is he with a troon?

>>24545810
If you liked Post Office there's no reason not to read all of his novels, it's all the same thing pretty much, they're all fun. That said, Post Office is actually my favorite. I don't like his short stories but all of the novels are funny and well-written, so go for it.

>>24546208
I don't think that is a troon but boy is it rough.

What does CB's expression say?

— "LOOK WHAT I GOT, BOYS! AREN'TCHA JEALOUS?"

or

— “I’M SO HIGH-T I CAN EVEN GET IT UP FOR THIS!"

or

“I GOT A BELT *AND* A WATCH. I'M PRACTICALLY MIDDLE-CLASS!”


Maybe we’ll never know.

>>24546224
The last one gave me a chuckle, good job. Honestly that's always been my favorite Bukowski picture. Fella just looks so damn content. All is well with the world as long as you have a cold one in your hand and a warm tail to fall asleep next to.

>>24546185
they look like the 2 weird guys from my high school class.

>>24546185
I would rather fuck the family dog than that trainwreck

>>24546185
She objectively looks better than the three quarters of the US adult population that are overweight now and and if she lived now she would never have sex with a sub-8 male.

>>24545807 (OP)
wouldn't reddit dislike him because he's le chud?

>>24547170
>and and if she lived now she would never have sex with a sub-8 male
I've fucked a lot, am certainly sub-8, and wouldn't fuck her with a bag over her head and a bag over mine

>>24547170
>sub-8
... do you see the pic?

>>24547276
Sure. What's your point?

>>24545807 (OP)

he can't be blamed, for inspiring ten thousand posers who want to drink whiskey and write on typewriters about women that failed to return their attention at the fake speakeasy in portland oregon last night.

>>24547337
why not

>>24545888
Kek, I started this insult

>>24548465
i'm quite sure i thought it up on my own.

>>24546224
he's one of those guys that thinks it's an act of revolution to roll around in shit. "the MAN'' doesn't think you should roll around in shit, so it must be a good idea. it's the look of such a man who has just found an especially smelly pile of shit to roll around in. it says "oh boy! dad will be so disappointed."

>>24545810
>>24545807 (OP)
You sound like a fucking homosexual.

>>24548473
I first made the comment on Thu, Dec 28, 2017. Then there's a scattering of me dropping it in threads throughout the years. Check the archives. If you did it earlier than that, you win

>>24545807 (OP)
Bukowski is my favorite author and I've never read a single one of his novels

>>24549744
that definetly earlier than me, but even so i arrived at the comparison on my own. someone posted a poem of his facetiously claiming it was their own and i said "fuck off with this rupi kaur shit", not knowing it was bukowski. i've been calling him male rupi kaur since.

>>24545888
>>24548465
The male Rupi Kaur is Ezra Pound

>>24550700
That bottom poem is cool as hell, sort of a precursor to Nael.

>>24545807 (OP)
You are Reddit by virtue of asking this question

>>24550700
don't like ezra pound, but he does have poems of worth mixed in with this bullshit. that aside, say what i will about rupi kaur and bukowski, they've never written anything as incomprehensible as what you posted.

>>24545807 (OP)
afraid so

>>24550700
Pound has depth and beauty. Bukowski is just brainless filth. Not even close.

>>24545807 (OP)
Bukowski is basically alright from my 1983-1990 and 2015-2025 NEET perspective. On the whole I identify with Elizabeth Bishop, and admire Stevens, at least in literary terms.

>>24550775
You've lived a life haven't you anon

pound was a poets poet, he would reference and write in a complicated obscure manner, if you want a "simple" poet then go for william carlos william, but then i know you'll all be complaining about how "my kid could write that".

>>24550741
Pound in no passage or even brief phrase has ever suggested or recommended to me any route to joy, nor even the loosest account or its etymology.

>>24550825
nta but the only time i eevr felt something when reading a poem was pounds in a station in the metro

its short but brilliant

I'm living in it even now. The circumstance I live is pretty rare.

>>24550839
The most I ever felt recalling poetry was Wallace Steven's sense of lush or remote suite.

I've been reading his correspondence with Sheri Martinelli; it's pretty good.

>>24545807 (OP)
>is this reddit?
>is camus reddit?
>is bukowski reddit?
>is dostoyevsky reddit?
>is this cringe?
>is this based?
>is gravity's rainbow still based?
>what should i think about blood meridian?
>i saw this on tiktok, is it cringe now?

It's been a wonderful seven years /lit/, but I think I am ready to graduate. Love you all, I hope you one day discover what literature is about. You need to find a girl who reads more than you, and yes they can be racist too. Just keep looking!

>>24551313
cringe... fuck you

>>24546185
Ewww

>complains nonstop about his city
>never moves out

>>24551432
I think he'd been to a lot of places. Wherever had he moved, he'd still find something to complain about.

>>24551313
Degraded to the lowest and most minimal form of bait. As it proliferates, more minds get infected and devolve to the same style in an attempt to blend in with the hive, becoming quintessentially a bastard version of reddit

>>24551313
>no
>yes
>yes
>no
>yes
>no
>never was
>it's garbage and reddit
>yes

>>24551313
See ya tomorrow

Is George Orwell reddit?

>>24553105
Yes

>>24547056
Same, but I'd enjoy it way too much

>>24551313
Announcing you are leaving is reddit

>>24545807 (OP)
yes

>>24553372
Post forepaws!

>>24551313
cringe
kys