A fairly detestable character but it was an easy enough, kinda interesting read over a few days. Short bursts of a certain way of life set during 1940s LA and NY. Alcoholism, horse racing, womanizing, a detest of work (which I understand but dude, sometimes, suck it up!), trying to be a Man with a capital M. I felt mixed, but it wasn‘t a terrible read. Flipped between so-so and pick but pick it is, some of the paragraphs and writing really good.
pickThis book is funny but crude, and I couldn't put it down. It's not for everyone.
My favourite, and I love the ambiguity over the interpretation (I rarely agree with historians when it comes to most topics on literature and poetry, and this time is no different) 🤍🤎.
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“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches”
#TemptingTitles #WithOld An old City Lights edition.
Went to Word on the Water on Friday, the London book barge, and picked up 2 news books. The first a small Bukowski book called Notes of a Dirty Old Man and the second called Seven Brief Lesson on Physics by Carlo Rovelli 💫 📚
so-soI gave it a rating of so-so as I think I enjoyed this one the least out of all the Chinaski novels. Henry is approached by a bizarre French director about writing a screenplay of events taken from Factotum, the formidable years of a drunk writer. Much of the novel is a commentary on the absurd business maneuvering and back-stabbing by film producers and the prima donna egos and odd hang ups of the talent on set. The least dirty book of the series.
