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Title: Bukowski it is not
Review: I tried to like this book. I tried to look for elements of Bukowski or Burroughs or Thompson or any of the great "dirty realism" writers that I love. Though certain portions of text (albeit rarely) may have made me laugh I could find little of what makes the previous authors so good in "Tattoo". I'm not a prudish person but the sex scenes were so frequent and predictable that it became laughable. If Everhard is a real person (and I don't much care if he is or not) then his story is as fictitious as the day is long. If you want a book that will literally arouse you and won't ask for much thought then I suppose this may be a good choice. If you want great writing that ignores social convention and so-called "ethics" stick to the classics. This isn't good enough to mop up Bukowski's spilled wine and to use his name (on the back cover) is disingenuous at best and fraudulent at worst.
