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I was under the impression that much of his work was not "the good ones." He was popular among the fringe, mostly because it was "cool" to be a part of the non

I was under the impression that much of his work was not "the good ones." He was popular among the fringe, mostly because it was "cool" to be a part of the non-conformist subculture. I read some of his stuff in the 1970's and it never grabbed me. It's cool though that he adapted to computers. Some more modern authors still won't touch them. https://mashable.com/archive/modern-writers-technology https://mashable.com/archive/modern-writers-technology

rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> He was popular among the fringe, mostly because it was "cool" to be a part of the non-conformist subculture He was popular among me, because when I worked in a factory doing manual labor in the 90's, his poems described the life I was living. It was neither fringe, nor "cool", nor non-comformist, nor part of a subculture. He was a good writer who wrote about what I was going through. Burroughs was just fucking crazy. I liked his writing too. Not the cut-up stuff. Exterminator!
- pimeys 1y ago
  Burroughs also wrote a lovely book on cats he met. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Inside https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Inside I always liked that one. Naked Lunch grew on me, but was a bit tough when I read it for the first time. I was 13 back then.
- apelapan 1y ago
  I was a young postal worker, temporarily flunked out of university, when I first read Bukowski. The Post Office of course. Aside from some postal technicalities it was less reflective of day to day in the postal world than Star Wars or Mission Impossible. I loved it and was hooked on his writing for life anyway.
memonkey 1y ago
bukowski wrote over 5,000 poems. he was bound to have some good ones and plenty of bad ones. also had a couple o' good novel/a hits.
- ofrzeta 1y ago
  "Ham on Rye" resonated with me as an adolescent. Interestingly the German title is "Das Schlimmste kommt noch", meaning "The worst is yet to come". I also liked "Post Office".

rufus_foreman 1y ago

>> He was popular among the fringe, mostly because it was "cool" to be a part of the non-conformist subculture He was popular among me, because when I worked in a factory doing manual labor in the 90's, his poems described the life I was living. It was neither fringe, nor "cool", nor non-comformist, nor part of a subculture. He was a good writer who wrote about what I was going through. Burroughs was just fucking crazy. I liked his writing too. Not the cut-up stuff. Exterminator!

pimeys 1y ago
Burroughs also wrote a lovely book on cats he met. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Inside https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Inside I always liked that one. Naked Lunch grew on me, but was a bit tough when I read it for the first time. I was 13 back then.
apelapan 1y ago
I was a young postal worker, temporarily flunked out of university, when I first read Bukowski. The Post Office of course. Aside from some postal technicalities it was less reflective of day to day in the postal world than Star Wars or Mission Impossible. I loved it and was hooked on his writing for life anyway.

memonkey 1y ago

bukowski wrote over 5,000 poems. he was bound to have some good ones and plenty of bad ones. also had a couple o' good novel/a hits.

ofrzeta 1y ago
"Ham on Rye" resonated with me as an adolescent. Interestingly the German title is "Das Schlimmste kommt noch", meaning "The worst is yet to come". I also liked "Post Office".