Women: A Novel by Charles Bukowski (PDF)

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Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.With all of Bukowski’s trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.

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⭐In my opinion, this is Bukowski’s best novel.If you’re a Bukowski reader, don’t miss this one.

⭐This is a work of fiction, but I assume inspired by people he met. Some good one liners: “The writing was the residue”; and “At my age there was very little left to kill.”I’ll read other works of his and consider it time well spent.

⭐I read Women immediately following Post Office, and it is also a part of my Esquire 75 Books Every Man Needs To Read reading challenge. Women is the 20th book on the list (not including books I will be rereading).After the death of his postal career along with the love of his life, Bukowski’s Chianski begins to scour trashy America for experience, art, booze, and sex. His career is beginning to take off and he can domore than merely survive in his existence, and he begins to explore himself and his relationships in this semi-autobiographical novel about much the same things as his other novels, but with a marked difference in literary style and execution as well as notoriety and accomplishment as an artist.The focus of this piece is easily the paper-thin relationships that Chianski surrounds himself with. Every escapade leads to some revelation about his manhood, his fame, and his constant brush with the women that seem to constantly contrast with his one vice – a penchant for finding the most emotionally unstable women to have weekend relationships with, and being both unsatisfied with the sex and relationship, and surprised when the women cling to him with fervent desire.In Women, Bukowski has improved and expanded his literary dance with being both anti-pedantic in diction and syntax while at the same time being misleading in his ability to screw intensive literary symbolism and devices into this somewhat simple work. The result is scrupulous, tireless literary and linguistic acrobatics that lead across the wasteland of white-trash slums and heighten Chianski’s vices and sexual escapades to that of religious reverence.Definitely deserves its place on Esquire’s list.

⭐Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.it reads well doesnt it….made me want to buy it…I read this book right to the end and it was consistent.The first thing that first struck me was his repeated use of the ‘c’ word (with four letters, ending in unt) to describe what others might call ‘pussy’.For some reason i found that a bit too much, but i will put that down to social conditioning.The book reads well, i felt like an alcoholic writer by the end of it, put it that way.An alcoholic writer who was getting a lot of sex from all sorts of different women.3 and half stars mostly because the author is so revered for his other books.I have finished reading ‘women’ and am looking around for other books in a similar genre which are just as sexy, just as debaucherous and have a common thread sewn into the plot, but not as vulgarand one dimensional.It lacks emotion.Its a fine line between boring sexual dribble and a novel which actually has some emotion and story telling behind it.This was close, but it didnt tick all the boxes for me.Having said that, i would buy it again and read it if i had never read it…this books makes me want to look into his other books.

⭐There was a video and it was like “ how most men perceive women” and this book was brought up many times. The narration is sickening but ig that’s how “most men perceive women”. Condition of the book 10/10.

⭐for a long time i’ve resisted reading bukowski becuase i sort of thought it might be a bit adolescent . How wrong can you be .This was superb honest and moving .A real account of real relationships and real existence. It’s also very funny at points . The narrator chinski is unfailingly honest about himself and the live he leads which stops the book becoming a series of macho conquests .The women give as good as they get in the main and chinski comes across as less of an aggressor and more of a victim of his own desires (as men in real life generally are ) He also allows himself to be very vulnerable, which is what is missing from almost all literary novels .The authors have the technique down….but not the desire to show themselves in all their disgusting, faded ,glorious, human detail . After reading this i went on to read ‘Factotum’ , ‘Love is a dog from hell and other poems’ and ‘Ham on rye’. All were quite superb …particularly ‘ Ham on rye ‘. It’s been a very long time since i’ve discovered a writer who makes me want to read book after book ….. and also effects the way you see life . You begin to understand through bukowski that the pain we all feel at times in life, is not some terrible thing fate has singled us out to suffer…. but is a part of life to be accepted. In cocnclusion, I’d give it 6 stars if i could…..

⭐Please amazon it’s a request. I’m your regular customer. Try to provide us with some quality product. I’m very disappointed with the quality of book though the book is excellent. I’m Charles Bukowski’s big fan. Please guys, improve on the quality of book. We are paying you the money, we deserve the quality. The book I received was not in proper condition. It looked old and the paper quality was not upto the mark. Disappointed.

⭐Excellent!

⭐great book

⭐This is his Greatest BOOK / Writing Ever Period.My only issue is with silly stupid cover, I so wish they ( Amazon ) had the orginal Paperback Version or a better looking and more Regal format of this Book and the others, Instead of this wierd silly Neon Version and small typo form of Books.Someday I will own a copy ( Brown Color Version of Women that I saw depicted in a film recently ) of the orginal print of this Book….. With the signature of Charles Bukowski Inside.

⭐It is disappointing when you wait eagery for a book and then you receive a scratched product like this. Very disappointing.Book review: I’m not gonna lie, this book took me quite sometime to read. Not because of the language rather because of the content. It’s heavy and dry. However, whenever the thought came of putting down the book, something extremely relative and relatable pop up and made me wanna go. However, I’m not gonna pick another Bukowski book for some time now.

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