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Rating:  Summary: Good, not great Review: I you want to read the goods on Bukowski, check out Neeli Cherkovski's Bukowski: A Life. And if you want to see how bad Steve Richmond is threatened by Cherkovski's book, read the review Richmond posted of it.Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I bought Spinning Off Bukowski. I'm glad I read it. Hell, I'm glad it exists in the world. The more material out there on one of America's greatest writers the better. It's especially important that those who knew him intimately get the words down on paper. This effort has a lot of good anecdotes about the two writers' old days in California, but I wish there were more pages about Buk in it and fewer about Richmond. If you're like me, you'll want everything you can find on Bukowski, the well done and the trash. This book is not trash by any means, but it's not all that great, either. Buy it, read it, put it on your shelf, wait for the next one that comes out and get that one, too. That's my plan, anyway.
Rating:  Summary: please cancel piece I submitted earlier today Review: In case I submitted a "review" of my own book earlier today, please don't print it. It's inappropriate to say least. thanks, steve richmond
Rating:  Summary: a waste of time... Review: My only criticism of this volume is a good number of vital chapters are missing.. edited out. Every chapter is a single interaction of myself with Bukowski: I relive the event (in the present tense) writing down exactly what is happening, along with the when/where/who/why factors involved. My publisher had a "pre-set" length in pages (around 150) that he wanted to print/publish. Therefore my original manuscript was cut down to a much shorter final manuscript. Thus SPINNING OFF BUKOWSKI shows a good deal of "blank canvas" in its final printed form (at least on my eye). It seems to me a finished SPINNING would approach 500 pages rather than the 150 page volume now on sale all over the place (Earth). E mail me (por favor) if interested.
Rating:  Summary: tales of ordinary hankness Review: stories recollecting time spent with hank ok stuff if you're a fan of bukowski and want to read about people who spent time with him
Rating:  Summary: a waste of time... Review: This guy knew Bukowski, it seems. Okay. The story is he was going to study law until he met Buk...and decided he wanted to write poetry. Well, guess what? This guy Richmond should have stuck with law and abulance chasing...because, as a writer, he doesn't have it. Nor do the other hacks: Cherkovski, Gerald Laughlin, et al. Read the Sounes book, if you feel a need to read ABOUT Bukowski... although, it may ultimately be a waste of time, because none of them can touch what Bukowski created himself. Bottom line: just read Bukowski, and skip the pretenders. Also, SUNLIGHT HERE I AM is quite good. Contains just about every interview Bukowski ever gave.
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