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Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski

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  1. jarvis400
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    I could only find this literature mash-up as a web archive. It's one of the better things I've seen on the Internet.

    I could only find this literature mash-up as a web archive. It's one of the better things I've seen on the Internet.

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    acr
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    I read Post Office in the Navy. It was very similar to my experience. It was really good. Bukowski gets a little reckless. In Women, a woman tells him her vagina is for her husband so he grabs a...

    I read Post Office in the Navy. It was very similar to my experience. It was really good. Bukowski gets a little reckless. In Women, a woman tells him her vagina is for her husband so he grabs a wad of Vaseline and puts it in her butt.

    I like Fante a lot better. I can see why Bukowski was so inspired and took so much from him.

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      jarvis400
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      I think 'Ham on Rye' was the first one I read. I was about sixteen. Then I read every Bukowski book I could find in the libraries of Helsinki. Now, looking back, those books certainly affected me,...

      I think 'Ham on Rye' was the first one I read. I was about sixteen. Then I read every Bukowski book I could find in the libraries of Helsinki.

      Now, looking back, those books certainly affected me, especially in the way they romanticized drinking.

      Must look up Fante.

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      1. acr
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        Ham on Rye was the first I read too. It's basically his version of - Wait Until Spring, Bandini

        Ham on Rye was the first I read too. It's basically his version of - Wait Until Spring, Bandini

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