POST OFFICE - BUKOWSKI

I read this in record time, to revert to cliche - I COULD NOT PUT THIS DOWN. This is the semi-autobiographical story of Henry Chinaski aka Charles Bukowski and his life of menial jobs, booze, women, booze, gambling, and booze. He stumbles from job to job and drink to drink relating stories of note. These stories are often hilarious and Bukowski's insights into low life America have not dulled with age. This is a character we shouldn't like but for me he has a charm that's hard to not to be fond of and laugh at/with. Bukowski's punchy classically American masculine prose only adds to the novel, there are those who will see this style as juvenile and macho, but I like it. If you like Junky, Last Exit to Brooklyn etc then read this word collection.