Topic: TinyChan Bookclub #2

+Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 12.7 years ago #31,376

For the TC bookclub's second selection I present: Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski (Mediafire) as chosen by Anonymous E.

Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and his thematic oeuvre.

+Anonymous B — 12.7 years ago, 5 minutes later[T] [B] #361,934

when I am not gambling...I like to drink and talk to women.....so this literature may appeal to me..

+Triptych !IupsXZPnnU — 12.7 years ago, 5 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,087

oh i do like some bukowski

just read the wasp factory, it's pretty rad. using it for an essay now.

+The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY — 12.7 years ago, 15 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,088

@previous (Triptych !IupsXZPnnU)

> bukowski
>
> wasp factory

Good luck with that essay.

·Triptych !IupsXZPnnU — 12.7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,089

@previous (The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY)
thanks
the wasp factory and orlando. i think it'll be a good essay

+ducky — 12.7 years ago, 4 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,105

I keep buying books and not reading them

·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk (OP) — 12.7 years ago, 7 hours later, 18 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,199

Bukowski is pretty grate.

I'm glad you liked TWF. By the end of it I couldn't help but sympathize with the protagonist despite hir uhm... unusual pastimes. Although I imagine if I had a father like that I would be a bit mixed up too. Were you taken aback by the ending?

I suppose that sex and death have always been inseparably linked on some level. TWF is one of the few books to really make me stop and think about gender issues. Maybe that's because Banks delves into the subject from such a bizarre angle.

Finally ordered a copy of The Skin Team, after I finish First as Tragedy then as Farce, I'm going to tackle it. So much too read, so little time.

@previous (ducky )
It seems like just about everyone is guilty of this to a degree. If you can't make yourself read, why not try an audiobook? Snowcrash (one of my favorites) or Ready Player One are both pretty light and entertaining and have grate audiobook adaptations available at thepiratebay and elsewhere.

@361,934 (B)
I think you would enjoy it, Bert.

·Triptych !IupsXZPnnU — 12.7 years ago, 21 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,247

@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
The Skin Team is one of the stranger books I've read, definitely worth the time.

I never ever expected that ending, just... well done, Iain Banks. Gendery books... The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things is a bit gendery, more just a child abuse book. Not the best written, but it's alright. Haven't read many gendery books; Virginia Woolf's Orlando is gendery but that's a bit different, Orlando just wakes up from a coma as a woman.

·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk (OP) — 12.7 years ago, 44 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,318

@previous (Triptych !IupsXZPnnU)
I'm looking forward to it.

Definitely not what I was expecting either.

I'll look into them. I've never read much of anything by Woolf besides part of To The Lighthouse (for a class), maybe I'll be more open to her work since I'm not being forced to read it though.

+Anonymous F — 12.7 years ago, 1 minute later, 19 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,321

I read a book once called...I am the cheese..

·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk (OP) — 12.7 years ago, 18 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,344

@previous (F)
The cheese stands alone...

·Anonymous F — 12.7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,347

@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
it really does.......a masterpiece..

+Morbid !vbsvhaneDY — 12.7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,351

@previous (F)

+Anonymous H — 12.7 years ago, 1 minute later, 19 hours after the original post[T] [B] #362,352

@362,321 (F)

> I read a book once

Something not quite right about this.

+Anonymous I — 12.6 years ago, 11 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #362,574

@OP
tl;dr

·Anonymous E — 12.6 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #362,577

lets read erotica together

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.6 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #362,625

@previous (E)
We did that last month!

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