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What's a good place to start with Bukowski?
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What's a good place to start with Bukowski?
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book
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>>7718043
thank, which 1
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Trash bin
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>>7718030

1. purchase any Bukowski book
2. deposit book in trash
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I've heard he most enjoys coffee dates.
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>>7718030
Factotum and then Ham on Rye (semi-autobiographical). You'll blow through those in like two weeks.
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>>7718030
It literally doesnt matter. You cant do it wrong. Dont fret so much about it. Having said that:: Tales of Ordinary Madness is a good primer.
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1. Focus all your thinking on how shit your life is.
2. Get drunk
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poor man's Tom Waits
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>>7718137
>You cant do it wrong

You should avoid the posthumous poetry collections though.
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Post Office is the feather in his cap
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middle school
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How to start reading Bukowski:
>be a girl
>be 17 yo
>listen to artic monkeys
>have daddy issues
>"i'm not like the other girls"
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>>7718030
A bar
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