Title: Entertaining
Product review: This was a good book, but it's value lay in clean, crisp writing and its entertainment value. it's a very light read. I read this when i could no longer stomach the more serious non-fiction i was read. but i kept reading! reading bukowski. i can't help comparing him to Fante, a comparison which leads me to my only critisism. Bukowski seems to disregard any didactic mission for a novelist, which is fine. but, knowing his love for fante, i think that in some sense he tries to emmulate him. but he just doesn't capture the emotion that fante does. who knows, maybe he just isn't emtional. and i also get the impression that he leaves imprtant details out. for example, it must be 3 times in this book that all of the sudden his woman decides to leave him. he doesn't tell what events led up to this. anyway, these are mere trifles of complaints. the book was a good book, taken for what it is, a light and entertaining read, well written and concise.
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