Post Office

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Summary: Can't say it better Daniel S.--Bukowski Rules!
Review: I'd like to write a review of a review. Is that permissible? Daniel S. from Windsor, Connecticut put it perfectly! Read his review! Whoever the hell Daniel S. from Windsor, Connecticut is he has summed up Bukowsky perfectly! By the way, I'm running out to get my prescriptions filled right now!

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Summary: Find the roots of "Going Postal"
Review: Bukowski's first "novel" tells of his career with the L.A. post office in the '50s and '60s. Although his duties seldom interfere with his drinking, the mind-numbing bureaucracy he describes would make any sentient being think of buying (and using) a gun.

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Summary: brutally honest-funny-and somehow touching
Review: Bukowski was a genius. A vulgar Hemingway. Post Office may be his magnum opus. I read it in less than 24 hours and I'm sure you will as well.

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Summary: A Novel That Break's the "Beat Mold"
Review: All too often, writers who use free form to describe unconventional living are labeled "beats". Is this fair? Bukowski was truly exceptional. For those of you who enjoyed Post Office, might I reccomend The Most Beautiful Woman in Town. It is a great follow up. Funny, quick, and always honest, Bukowski leaves the reader with a passion to live life to the fullest.

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Summary: Real life
Review: I think this book is brilliant. If you're a depressed would-be writer, flip-flopping from one job to the next, with barely enough cash to refill your prescriptions, Post Office might stop you from blowing your own head off. -Daniel S.

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Summary: How can I say it in one line?!?!
Review: This is the ultimate of Bukouski's writing! He was pure genius. This is a book that I have read many times...losing count after 13. His writing is hilarius, and yet so truthful. This was my introduction to Mr.Bukouski, the one that got me hooked. Beware, he is addicting!

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Summary: Try Mailboxes, Etc. before you go to the Post Office
Review: While I am under no illusions that people and lives like this exist, I believe that there has to be a more talented and profound method of conveying them. Have people enjoyed this "novel" to sound liberated and intellectual? Or, is Bukowski's audience merely deprived of great literature. Bukowski's narrator, the postal temp, nymphomaniac alcoholic, gave me such an ill feeling that I turned the pages to see if he could possibly redeem himself in my eyes. His numerous encounters with women, while they may be true to life, seemed to be void fillers within the work. It was as if Bukowski was trying to emmulate Allen Ginsberg with his raw and outrageous nature. His attempts were meager and artificial. Mr. Bukowski, You are no Allen Ginsberg.

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Summary: Bukowski at his best
Review: Post Office is, without question, among the most accessible of Bukowski's countless books. As such, it is a stellar introduction for those seeking to delve into the world that is Charles Bukowski. One of his finest works.

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Summary: FAVORABLE
Review: one of bukowski's best writing. brutally honest, the only thing he knew, incredibly painful and somehow, someway, within the absurdity of life and work itself...FUNNY.

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Summary: Stunning; one of my favorites
Review: Like an even more drunken Hemingway with a dash of the Louis-Ferdinand Celine insanity, Bukowski bleakly but matter-of-factly describes the underworld of the City of Angels through the eyes of a postal worker. Bukowski's resigned bitterness is the driving force behind this novel; it is, as usual, brilliant. Not to be missed.