Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

[@RobbedSoul]

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[@RobbedSoul]

Awesome 😎

[@commonlogic3646]

@@ALLCAPS that's not a real song right?

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@@commonlogic3646 what you mean

[@commonlogic3646]

@@ALLCAPS isn't it just a remix? Or did doom actually make it?

[@chutupfool]

I would like to applaud the gentleman reading this audiobook. He has Bukowski's tone, inflection and mannerisms down so well it's surreal. This is the third Bukowski audiobook I have listened to with this particular narrator and I swear I could literally see Chucks block head and underbite reciting the words in his signature droll. You sir, deserve a high five and a beer.

[@barryg528]

I like the narrator. He sounds like Norm MacDonald

[@garmind4868]

I assumed The reader was author , now i question why and have no answer.

[@garmind4868]

@@barryg528 no it sounds more like the actor Tommy Lee Jones

[@ralphlopez3077]

Christian Baskous.

[@Zepster77]

@@ralphlopez3077 No one reads Buk better !!!

[@animalntelligence3170]

if this guy ain't a genius, who is? great reader also, the best i can think of.

[@penzman]

My first Bukowski. I am hooked.

[@zaakiraht8699]

Me tooo, read an excerpt in a lit class and ran to find it

[@soulpriest1866]

Same here

[@Kidthebilly]

Im traveling thru america ya know hitch hiking and hopping trains and these buk audiobooks get me thru the night. I might make it..

[@nicholasmitchell1946]

Hope your travels are going well - not in a place to be doing that at this time but I dream of it for sure !

[@davideldred.campingwilder6481]

...great bloke speaking this. He captures the imagination, as well as keeping the listener's focus upon the story. I've (NEVER) listened to an Audiobook before. This is my first time listening to Bukowski. But it really is a great listening experience as I stayed up until 4am...And then 4am the next night then finished at 8pm. Here in Vilnius...

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Yes! I still listen to these when I have the time. Our treasures.

[@nicholasmitchell1946]

Welcome to the wonderful world of audiobooks - feel incredibly fortunate to have discovered them as they are a great way to pass the time when I have menial tasks like laundry, riding the train, exercise or whatever else. The downside is they’re so great I now am regularly up past 4am because they’re so great. I will always love and appreciate reading actual books but life doesn’t allow much time for that these days and the audiobook is an innovation I will always give thanks for.

[@RandomlyRantful]

RIP Charles. Thank you for leaving your insights of life.

[@ALLCAPS]

I will be uploading Pulp in a few days! :) stay tuned!

[@_Mr.Black_]

What's the B stand for

[@samsalamander8147]

I went from “Oh poor kid” to laughing hysterically more times than I can count.

[@adamfox1669]

I was listening to it on the bus& couldn’t stop it was worth the looks I got

[@tcbryan7724]

How many serial killers had childhoods just like Bukowski's? In stead, he became a poet. The delicate mechanism of the human mind is truly a mystery.

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That's a good point! I've never thought of it that way.

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​@Gaurav kumar singh yeah.... Jordan Peterson talks about something like this in his 12 Rules For Life. Taking ownership of misery. No matter how bad things get, there's always a light at the end of the tunnel. He talks about it here in this clip kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYrYkmBpf9KhipY

[@controlaltdelete4165]

@@ALLCAPS sure, I suppose. But it takes a perfect storm to become a Jeffrey dahmer or similar , the whole mixture of their loneliness and sexual urges of killing to want company so bad but can't have relationships so you kill them to make them stay with you and eat them to have them forever, whereas other people completely ashoo people and become entirely antisocial and not caring about having people I. Your life because you think it's counterintuitive and people are shit

[@danfromtheburgh]

@@ALLCAPS when you spell the man's name

[@dustinolvey8877]

Didn’t everyone in his generation have his childhood?

[@illinformation4865]

This is narrated brilliantly.

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I will be uploading Pulp in a few days! :) stay tuned!

[@danielgulakov9685]

Nice!

[@Mo_Ketchups]

It doesn’t take but a few seconds to believe it’s Hank himself reading this-beyond uncanny the facsimile of the voice. It makes these 100x more enjoyable to listen to. [Too bad they used the WORST narrator instead of this guy for one of Bük’s books (forget which): Will Patton! 😖😖 He reads like every word from his soup-cooler is the cure for cancer-so contrived & precious, plus he whistles his S’s.]

[@alwayscoca-cola6487]

AJ Constantine same.

[@hanshalle8690]

Its read to fast you twat.

[@MrTwotimess]

Christian Baskous' voice fits the book perfectly!

[@junkettarp8942]

Amazing writer ...so descriptive of humanity ...especially his own.

[@yogaroutineect]

I read this novel decades ago and it was so enjoyable to experience it again. The reading was excellent. Thank you.

[@silversnail1413]

"I was just a fifty cent turd floating around in the green ocean of life." That line has always stayed with me.

[@luke125]

I love Bukowski. This was the first book of his that I read. It’s still my favorite. What a miserable fucking childhood Hank had. Those awful parents and that razor strop, a real nightmare. I love the narrator. He makes it come alive.

[@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347]

Not that a uncommon childhood me friend.

[@gms9655]

And I thought my childhood was a nightmare. It's sort of comforting just knowing someone had a bigger disaster as a kid. Maybe that was his biggest appeal? Sort of like a great blues musician.

[@Charlieboy2680]

BUKOWSKI lives on! Thanks for all this content !

[@chicopeebles3706]

Until I read Bukowski I didn't think the human condition could be captured in art. Attempted, yes. Captured, no. Lot's of people vomit up personal/historical events that are funny, sad, etc.; but Hank could create a narrative that relays how complex life is and never attempting to really make sense of it. We're luck to have had him among us.

[@Elwood_McCable]

And o. henry, robert louis stevenson , arthur machen, nathaniel hawthorne, mark twain, nathanael west? Give them your time and thought and between their words and your experience, their works will do exactly the same for you.

[@blutkrieg4450]

4:57:14 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

[@farrider3339]

+ the Fear of losing what you have .•°

[@dontfear_thereaper]

I'm currently going through some similar shit and this book really helped me cope lol. Great job on the narration by the way, your voice reminds me of Bukowski himself.

[@AndresSanchez-gq4gp]

Thanks for the upload. Narration is fantastic.

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This is my favorite Bukowski Narrator. I'm glad you liked it, share it with your friends.

[@davidleewrath6919]

ALL CAPS Christian is fantastic.

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My favorite narrator.

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I will be uploading Pulp in a few days! :) stay tuned!

[@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347]

Narration is the best. Thanks for posting. 👊

[@ben6162]

The bit starting at like 2:05 :00 is giving me flashbacks to Come and see, a Belarushan film about the holocaust there. In the penultimate scene, a German soldier is vomiting in the background, and it is the best use of background I have ever seen in a film. To be fair, it was the best film I habe ever seen. It is sickening and had a good part in forming my character. I watched trippinh for the first time, and it was the best and worst experience of my life.

[@revalation64]

Thank you so much for uploading. Finished it today, on my birthday.

[@stellapivovarova5625]

Thank you SO much for your Bukowski uploads.❤️

[@Bernhard_Floedl]

I want to thank you for uploading this! I read the book as a teenager and now listening to it brings it all back.

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My pleasure! ( :

[@riooli3442]

"Maybe he's gonna throw a rock at it"😅....classic!

[@Johnny-mp2ew]

I never laughed so god damn hard at a book

[@insatiablecuriosity2555]

I am so grateful for this channel.

[@fatfrreddy1414]

excellent...congratulations to all,especially the reader....not to mention,Mr Bukowski!!

[@kay_17]

Had to read this book for my English class. This audio helped a lot.

[@Swanky11]

Thank you for uploading this and adding the subtitles too! I imagine that took a lot of work

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Thanks mate! :D I remember them being automatic! I just had to feed in the subs! and it aligned them (yes it took like a few hours maybe 4)

[@Aeon2Flux]

"My father didn't like people, my father didn't like me..." XD

[@cvetannikolov2823]

Can we talk later?

[@dereksmallsuk]

Snap

[@mariaspierer1580]

Thank you my favorite book !

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no problem!

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I will be uploading Pulp in a few days! :) stay tuned!

[@fireinthesun2408]

So far the best book I’ve read. Worth it for anyone thinking about it. Brutal yet amusing but all so real.

[@joenavanodo3780]

I’m about half way through the narrative, I think it’s an incredible, absorbing story, a real story of struggle, strength against the world, if it’s true, and it does seem credible even as it’s incredible. I want to keep listening, but I must stop because it’s all so too much. It’s fascinating how he develops his love for reading, reading his interest, his attraction to specific authors, those who spoke his story. Not to get too self involved but there are things here that resonate with myself. I always thought I was alone in those experience but now, maybe they are universal, a tragedy of our time, of growing up in a particular time or place. Anyway, I will listen on. I love this character Hank, and people who love him, are my kind of people. I like to think so. It’s a comforting thought.

[@stevegalluccio8929]

a classic! the narrator really nailed this one, painting even a better picture than i had in my mind after reading this book a few times. i love this channel and appreciate your content. looking forward to exploring more and also looking forward to any future uploads

[@plicketyplunk]

Love Bukowski and the narrator is absolutely perfection.

[@MS-rg6ku]

I love the MF Doom namesake especially since it was his song Cellz that introduced me to bukowski thanks for the upload

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That's awesome, man! It's interesting to hear how others were introduced to Bukowski. You can imagine the feeling-- the feeling of being an MF DOOM fan who was just looking for other songs and stumbling upon Cellz. I'll never forget-- my heart dropped. I didn't believe it. My favorite hiphop artist tipping his hat at my favorite writer. :') My story of finding Bukowski was a rather silly one. I found him through the fake quote "Find what you love and let it kill you." only to find that it was fake later on. To whom ever made that fake quote near Bukowski's picture: I thank you.

[@MS-rg6ku]

ALL CAPS have you ever heard Earl Sweatshirts version of ALL CAPS? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fp6an3iAYp2CepI

[@MS-rg6ku]

Was 14 when he recorded it 🔥 🔥

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I don't know-- let me listen to it. Listening to it. . . Holy shit. It's dopeeeeee~! I like! Earl Sweatshirt is nasty as fuck! I love EARL. That song was deadly.

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Have you listened to kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5yWZmSJf6mfn5I Flow-ers by Joey Bada$$ or any of his other songs. He's pretty tight too. I have much respect for these young artists who actually produce beautiful rhymes and styles. Keep it real! :D

[@mayastevens1503]

My favorite book of all time

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MINE TOO!

[@Anne-yi5sb]

Love to hear Christian Baskous narrate this. Every voice has the inflection of the person. Excellent! Loved it.

[@SuperOlds88]

"loaded with shit and I had to fight" haha

[@frostfalon]

This one is too much relatable 😂

[@cullingthegenepool6842]

LOL! I am laughing hard at the dialogue in this amazing read. This is what my childhood was like being around a bunch of old wino racist curmudgeons. This is exactly how people spoke back then. Reminds me f my uncle Stan. LOVE THIS!

[@ChilliCheezdog]

I gave this book to my father when he was in hospital dying of cancer. Dad and Bukowski had been born in more or less the same year. I thought dad would 'get it.' He didn't. Dad didn't get me either. I'm not bitter. Bukowski got me. My dad should have been my hero. No. Bukowski beat him to it.

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that's deep. yeah. It's sad that he didn't understand this book. I think Buk represents so many of us; whether we'd like to admit it or not. Thank you for sharing!

[@ChilliCheezdog]

@@ALLCAPS It isn't sad.

[@GUITARTIME2024]

My Dad never liked me. He passed away 12 yrs ago. Weird, because I really like my kid.

[@MrUnit731]

Peaceful Music it’s not weird to like your kid man. I hope I misunderstood you there.

[@ddss97]

MrUnit731 it’s weird because he was mistreated By his father; which implys he would also mistreat and dislike his own child. He’s pleasantly surprised.

[@messipist]

Thank you for all the uploads, good sir. Much appreciated.

[@eufemial5043]

Nicely read. Love it.

[@c-lokes3636]

Nostalgic, sentimental, brilliant, even being from a different generation can relate to his childhood and adolescence

[@AB-kg6rk]

excellent writing and narration

[@Rlc1975-t7w]

Still one of my all time favourite novels

[@davidotness6199]

Perfectly narrated.

[@Max.Wiggins]

Thanks for these uploads.

[@Ahorseback44]

Thank you so much for this

[@Evv_McMuffin]

Back on this fkn bishhhh! Errytime. Appreciate you ALL CAPS.

[@tonym6566]

This book is hilarious in a Joey Diaz type of way xD

[@kvflips]

It sucks to hear (his bad times), but I have to know why this man is the way he is.

[@alanoffer]

Beautifully read

[@anniabuhl5991]

Been listening to bumkowski and mf for years. Can't believe I found this channel. Fuhhhck

[@cornergarageproductions9182]

Always fantastic

[@may230]

Incrível. 😍

[@TheOctoberDeathBird]

Love you, Buk.

[@yungmetro4889]

This book had always stuck with me. And it’ll always will.

[@wendyyoung]

Yes this voice is fantastic. Fits live a glurvvv xx

[@andrewflores6478]

I can barely stand to listen. It's so painful to reflect on the confusion and unfairness of the human condition. Childhood and life is all too often so tragic and intensely uncomfortable.

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Yup that's how I felt during the chapter about the neighbors watching the helpless cat

[@pleasequietdown8946]

The sad violin got me. Took me months to come back but I'm glad I did

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@ALLCAPS nooo I was warned if I like cats, which i do to skip that part. Im trying hard to never learn it

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@@lastnamefirst4035 Let me find the part and tell you what to skip, is that okay? :)

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@@pleasequietdown8946 yeah... when I read that part I was left all sad and confused.

[@patchd7]

I’ve been reading this on paper but it’s hard for me to sit and read anything for very long no matter how good the book. I’m glad the narrator doesn’t sound like some yuppie and even kinda sounds like the great himself. Btw... I’m honored to be the 420th like 😂

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Patrick Dyer I noticed.

[@رشيدموسوي-ش5ه]

Life of Henry's is the same as mine. But it becomes less painful in time. Thanks God I finished my study I live better life now.

[@Johnny-mp2ew]

Just finished it. He's not like other writers. He has balls.

[@2DaysNorth]

Everybody should go to bed for 3 or 4 days and just give it up -Bukowski

[@matheusseefeldt5100]

I wish Charles Bukowski could listen to this.

[@jamesreedmusic4224]

Ol bukowski was with you in spirit while reading

[@friggii1]

Perfect!! Christian Baskous sound kind like Bukowski.

[@Aeon2Flux]

The part about the cat is so God damned heartbreaking and awful ..To be in that situation being helpless and knowing it was wrong. Being the only one to see how cruel life can be..Its reminds me of the lambs and little Clairse. Except much more bleak and sad. Because it was true. All the irony and parallel metaphors too..It wasn't fair, but that was life. Henry already knew, but just disgusted how cruel humanity and being just as alone as that cat was. Not even fully grown and the world's rigged against them,us. Powerful stuff.

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Yeah. There is so much of that humanity is cruel parallel in this novel, it's insane. I'd like to also mention that, a while back, I found a connection between this book and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I will share a link with you that completely outlines it beautifully. Have a read: bukowskiforum.com/threads/ham-on-rye-and-frankenstein-anybody-else.12057/

[@Aeon2Flux]

@@ALLCAPS I know Frankenstein is one of my favorite books. Funny I totally see that, I wonder who was a worse father? Victor or Henry's dad?

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@@Aeon2Flux Hahaha thanks for reading!

[@MrTwotimess]

Thanks for the heads-up on the cat scene. I managed to avoid that by skipping ahead.

[@Aeon2Flux]

@@MrTwotimess Well you shouldn't skip it, it's not graphically described what happens and it's a very important moment in Henry's life. Just be ready to shed a tear and also learn that despite how course and ragged buck may seem on the outside, you find out something uplifting about who he is inside.

[@jamesreedmusic4224]

I believe this may be my favorite book

[@all20790]

I love Bukowski and MF DOOM. thanks bro

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Listen to Cellz by MF DOOM

[@all20790]

Oh I've heard that one. great song and sample

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aron_favorites Once I heard that song I was set in stone a lifetime fan of, both, DOOM and Buk

[@all20790]

ALL CAPS that's how I discovered it too! great artists

[@all20790]

in fact I just ordered the novel and it should arrive tomorrow. I want to both read it and listed to it

[@no-grumpy-old-men]

The story of how child abuse can ruin the life of a person. Tragic.

[@junkettarp8942]

Bokowski......makes it Ok to be messed up celebrate and accept your state.....He was a literary giant .....I think it was burlesque in a sense ......he was smart and did not live his art...he concealed his genuine heart.,,,which I suspect was very sensitive.

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Yeah! he was and is a very special human.

[@johnmiller7453]

There's nothing worse than to be sensitive and be born into a house full of monsters.

[@EastCoastButtSlasher]

Bulshit, he was a goddam drunk

[@andrewflores6478]

He didn't make being messed up ok. Nothing does. He just laid his on the table so u can look at it.

[@charleshankbukowski4426]

thanks ALL CAPS.

[@ALLCAPS]

No problem!

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I will be uploading Pulp in a few days! :) stay tuned!

[@deanhettig1920]

Two forty one.. Book mark! 😂 👌🏼

[@timd3961]

Chapter 44 wow. Cutting truth.

[@TheBaron97]

Straight up one of the most depressing books I've ever read. I wish I'd stopped listening in the first thirty minutes like I'd wanted too.

[@russellpaloor8225]

I always enjoyed Tales of a ordinary madness! I wonder if there is any audio book for that one. Some good short stories

[@findingjoy2657]

1:27:50 Chapter 16 1:36:06 Chapter 17 1:41:07 Chapter 18 1:51:25 Chapter 19

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one thing you can do is hit "show transcript" and Ctrl+F and type Chapter x and find your chapter that way. Pause the video, and click on the Subititle text and it should take you to that chapter.

[@hankworden3850]

To think, somebody had suicided for that!

[@geekay1349]

do people still do picnics

[@MrDoctorColossus]

You mean deliberately gathering and eating outside? Sometimes they do, yes.

[@Saturnia2014]

Not as much as they used to do. People don't have the leisure time that used to have.

[@Rahoorkhuitable]

He´s free because he knows he cannot escape the court. He´s free because he knows his body is somehow made of court.

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

he's immune to the blandishments of giggling homosexuals. he lives in a new Wild West of bandages and pus.

[@farrider3339]

@Princess : CORRECT✅ ... nO escape is the liberation 👋.•°

[@raymondduran6492]

It will not get away from All the shit that it's done 💩✔️☣️💣

[@chnnlsrfr3873]

24:26 "....oopen youurre mouth.. ". blah hahahahaha! !!!! Gotcha b.

[@anattablue]

Related to the events that happened here in chapter 24 with the character Harry Walden and his distinct blue and green delicate clothing and his golden hair. To hear that this interesting lad just offed himself and for Chinaski to only keep dawdling away at his teachers thighs is rather amusing, upsetting, and generally showing. Reduced to nothing but a now removed blockade.

[@plutoplatters]

this guy sounds like Bukowski ! dammmn

[@JohnsGuineaPigs]

beautiful

[@winros3042]

I like poetry but I never got into poetry I never felt it however, it all started with Allan Edgar Poe the poem Alone was narrated and I was hooked poetry! Then all of sudden who comes on next you guess the Charles Bukowski... long story short who do I listen to next Virginia Woolf? My life will never be the same... Tom Waits should play him in a movie... those were days of roses poetry and prose....

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You could read a little bit of Sherwood Anderson... read The Triumph of The Egg, maybe try Dostoyevsky? really good stuff there. I read Ezra Pound, John Fante (as recommended by Bukowski), his Ask the Dust was unforgettable! the Bandini series like Buk's Chinaski series, beautiful! haha.

[@winros3042]

@@ALLCAPS thank you I will! How about Hunter Thompson? He did so many drugs throughout the day from drinking to drop in hits of acid unbelievable! He's very much on the same wavelength as Charles Bukowski.

[@louiefurio3013]

I like how he liked the Filipinos

[@drmodestoesq]

Yep...he's the alcoholic John Fante.

[@MIB_63]

My favorite Bukowski novel narrated by my favorite Bukowski narrated. What's not to like?

[@GloopSerious-nt9dv]

Ive read this while he was still alive... I knew he... It was obvious he is one of the greats

[@ryanpayne3761]

This guy sounds a little bit like Norm Macdonald I like it

[@ALLCAPS]

ryan payne Check out his other reads! (: Either through my channel (Bukowski) playlist or others but he reads all the other major novels by buk.

[@johns8596]

Good stuff. Shame, we have no readings of celine.

[@rebekatalebi8046]

ALL CAPS he’s pretty good but Bukowski was theatrical & its a shame we didn’t have enough recordings of him. I don’t know but for some reason he reminds me of an English professor especially how he enunciates & caries each word. I really believe he had too much class, style & eloquence to suffer through indignation & poverty.

[@Haydenthemaker1000]

Amazing

[@hatechickenofficial3819]

😍Genius !!! 😍

[@jamesreedmusic4224]

This is goooood

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

FYI "Stilettos" in this case are long, thin knives /daggers.

[@midguy4265]

Oh thanks coach

[@StephenMorris-q5f]

If Bukowski's parents were anything like Hank's, they were what is known in Australia as a pair of cunce.

[@mansongang5766]

I wonder if he's going to throw a rock at it 😂😂

[@maksimremnev9507]

This book is the true meaning of: invent yourself and reinvent yourself.

[@ALLCAPS]

My name is also Maksim and is spelled that way too

[@maksimremnev9507]

@@ALLCAPS Russian?

[@ALLCAPS]

@@maksimremnev9507 yes!

[@winros3042]

Does anyone know if he smoked weed?

[@ALLCAPS]

He didn't. In one interview he even states that he hates that people do smoke weed. That it slows the mind and that science, in the future, will find that it's much more harmful to the body than alcohol. This was in his Bukowski Tapes. Tapes that I'm waiting to post, later. (perhaps on a different platform).

[@winros3042]

@@ALLCAPS do you believe it's worse than alcohol? And navigation strings that they make are unbelievable! Personally I don't smoke weed perhaps a couple times a year. I am an artist and many many of my artist friends love smoking weed and doing art. I tried to smoke weed one time and I can do any art! I have friends that were born with a joint in their hand and they function throughout the whole day.

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

@@winros3042 its the 4-142 transistor that operates at the edge of the bias field. the joint in a hand has its uses in a case of transmission or operatic arias. Did I ever hear of an infected back. NO. the back is the major organ that cannot be amputated.

[@silversnail1413]

I have immense respect for Bukowski as an artist but his views on substance abuse were pretty ridiculous. His addiction to alcohol resulted in a near fatal hemorrhage when he was only in his thirties and continued to cause him problems for the rest of his life, so I don't see how cannabis could be more physically damaging. I won't begrudge the man his opinion but I think he was very short sighted on that particular issue.

[@barryg528]

Who knew Bukowski was such a specimen in his prime