The Captain is Out to Lunch by Charles Bukowski (PDF)

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A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski’s last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer’s life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating our own lives and natures, and to give new meaning to what was once only familiar. Crumb has illustrated the text with 12 full-page drawings and a portrait of Bukowski.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Another saved Bukowski classic that like so many of them have been found by publishers and pieced together if they were not already in tact and made available for mass market purchasing. I’m a huge fan of Bukowski’s ever since I was in high school and I found a copy of ‘The Most Beautiful Woman in Town’ and ‘Tales of Ordinary Madness’ since then, I have purchased every copy of any book of his written by him ever since that I can get my hands on that won’t put me in the poorhouse. I’m glad for these books and the availability of them. Bukowski has a wonderful and raw writing style all of his own that seemed to mellow some with age. This is a good book to add to the collection to the Bukowski reader. If you’re new to Bukowski and you want his true first few novels in his beginning writing style, I would suggest ‘Post Office’ or ‘Ham On Rye’. This book contains Bukowski’s last journals.

⭐I love Charley, writes like he knows what he’s speaking of!

⭐I first discovered Bukowski while I was in college, struggling to find poetry I liked enough to read for a writing class. The drunken sage rescued me from a banal semester reciting and dissecting the works of TS Elliot and, for that at least, I am grateful. I was SO grateful, as a matter of fact, that I picked up his prose work, starting with the incredibly funny “Pulp” and moving backwards.This book is a selection of journal entries Bukowski made in 1992-1993 where he ruminates on death, celebrity (not the ham), writing, his past and of course the racetrack. It’s a slim read (144 pages) and is written in Buk’s usual no frills style. It’s not my favorite, but it provides insight into the author’s life and trials as he knowingly ventures along the edge of oblivion.This book is billed as a cooperative effort between Bukowski and R Crumb; however, I didn’t feel Cumb’s contribution was anything special. His illustrations are great, but they don’t add information or meaning to the writing they accompany. Still, for getting two demented geniuses’ work together in any form is something worth looking into and, although the sum doesn’t feel equal to the parts that went into it, this remains a delightful read for Buk’s fans.

⭐I went through amazon and bought a couple of books really quickly, so I missed the fact that this book is more of a journal. I thought I had a purchased a novel! That being said, I wasn’t disappointed. Bukowski is a unique, opinionated and completely genuine person. When I say genuine, I don’t mean to insinuate that he’s always right I mean that it always feels he’s being honest in a very internal and personal way, not even necessarily honest about the specifics of events he describes but honest about his feelings and straight forward emotionally. The book is a quick read and made me laugh out loud at times. R Crumb’s artwork is pretty much always a pleasure, though there are only a few pictures-somewhat less than what I was expecting. At the end of the book I felt pretty sad to think that Bukowski had died, throughout the quick entries I felt like he was talking to me and it was sad that he wasn’t around anymore. If you are a Bukowski fan, I’d certainly suggest reading this!

⭐This is Bukowski after he’s crossed the tunnel. No urges for money or a decent living. No more wakening up with rats in his belly.I would say a more relaxed Bukowski, enjoying the last of his life playing at the horses.His usual self, but improved and more relaxed language…Great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

⭐Followed this recommendation from another users list with similar tastes and was so surprised with this style of writing. Simple and heartfelt it is very much like a personal diary, like a good friend lying resting in a couch beside you telling you about themselves.

⭐I found it a comfort to read these pages on nights when sleep stinks away from me. It’s like pillow talk with a fellow writer.

⭐This is Bukowski at the end of his life sounding the notes that have become all too familiar: he is a hero for living on his own terms and everyone else is a soulless moron. This theme is continued with a few variations page after page until the very end. As Bukowski himself acknowledges, many great writers go into a decline and lose their touch, and in this rather unimaginative and monotone work he seems to confirm that. Bukowski is pretty good even when he is bad, but in this book he is merely repeating the same things he has always said, only now he sounds more tired and less original. At his best he can be brilliant, but even then his range is extremely narrow: drinking, whoring, writing, and betting at the track, and not much else. As for this unfortunate effort, it probably would have been better if he had died before he wrote it.

⭐This is my first prose book from Charles Bukowski and I think it’s utterly brilliant. The man writes about going to the horse race track, about driving the freeway in his Acura Legend (to and from the horse race track…), about Linda Lee, about his cats, about writing – and nothing more really. In his writing I find profound and eternal wisdom, about life, about death. Charles Bukowski makes my anxieties, depressive feelings, feelings of sadness to evaporate. This book is of great clarity and tranquility. Zen master Bukowski. Gassho. What a man. What a writer. Buy. This. Now. And. Read. It.

⭐The illustrations are missing don’t buy the kindle version what a con.

⭐The book was a gift for my son. He tells me it is very good – mixing two of his favourite authors. A good buy!

⭐Arrived in a day, will be greatly recived

⭐Has the best advice ever for any aspiring writer.

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