Pulp by Charles Bukowski

[@houseofbathos]

I like listening to it on .75x, it sounds like he’s drunk.

[@outofbox000]

Oh I like it thanks

[@Bennycanofbeans]

You are a god damn genius. #MFDOOMlives btw...

[@Bennycanofbeans]

I will no longer be listening at normal speed.

[@Mathias_NB]

1.00 is way too fast, .75x is perfect, thanks.

[@richardgoss4777]

Yeah much better, thank you.

[@chriscameron4706]

Just glad there's still people out there with a taste for rawness.

[@overlex]

Chris Cameron . Same

[@celestinij]

Fuck yes. Give it to me RAW and WRIGGLING

[@sanahaj500]

Yey

[@u.sonomabeach6528]

I lub me some raw doggy dog. Dig it? All in, even sack

[@knowid9559]

That is not the point

[@paulburns1333]

Christian Baskous hits the nail on the head every time he narrates Bukowski, brings the story and the characters to life. It's proper interpretation, not just regurgitation of the words. Some of the accents are brilliant, make me laugh out loud.

[@poem]

❤️‍🔥 “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way.” ❤️‍🔥 ― Charles Bukowski 😎

[@ALLCAPS]

My favorite

[@emojiking8580]

🤓🤚 👋🥃

[@gmac9133]

🍸

[@blackbird5634]

"Sometimes I bend over to tie my shoe and when I stand up the day is over.'' -William Burroughs.

[@poem]

@@blackbird5634 👏

[@BertWald-wp9pz]

‘Most of the world was mad and the part of the world that was not mad was angry and the part of the world that was not mad or angry was just stupid’. Amazing, and he had not even seen the internet.

[@Gillidan]

My eyes were red, my shoes were blue and nobody liked me. But I still had things to do.

[@dennismason3740]

Nice. I met Linda in 1980. We drank wine and talked. "I've got to get back to Pedro" she said. I said goodbye and I wondered "who the heck is Charles Bukowski besides being the writer of Dirty Notes in the Free paper?" and I had never read his column. The next day I went to the library and checked out "Women" and I laughed and I laughed and I laughed.

[@baronsaturday9529]

Hahaha.... Yeah, he's one o/t greats!

[@claudiubele4892]

at the end he repeats the line but says "and only i loved myself", brilliant

[@YogsenForfoth]

Nobody had the right to be as cool as Bukowski was.

[@BigPhilly15]

Extremely underrated Bukowski book. My favorite.

[@peterzinia3767]

One of the best writtings about absolutly nothing. Total Bullshit & I love it. Nobody could or can lay it out like C.B.

[@davidfaulkner7805]

Being more familiar with Factotum, Ham On Rye, and Post Office, I didn't know what to expect as I hadn't read a review of Pulp. For quite a while I wasn't really getting into it but I kept listening. On Chapter 30 now and this is amazing, great unexpected humour and a mad storyline. Absolutely brilliant. Started reading Bukowski bit by bit about 10 years ago; it was like reading some kind of bible for wayward thinkers and the first time that I thought this guy thinks a bit like me.... Although this man is a genius.

[@tekols1116]

Thank you Mr. Reader.This would not be the same experience without you. And I wish happiness upon you. If you are a good person. 😉

[@dennismason3740]

This story saves my life 2, 3 times a year.

[@bealitha]

I have been reading and listening to all of his novels during a long recovery from COVID-19. Pulp is very different from his other novels but none the less totally blew me away. Thank you so much for posting this ALL CAPS. 🙏

[@ALLCAPS]

Get well! Health is all we have

[@bealitha]

@@ALLCAPS Thank you for your good wishes x

[@ALLCAPS]

I remember reading Women and Ham on Rye when being destroyed by exams and 12 hr days in college. Those were good times. I picked up Ask the Dust too, by John Fante and loved it so much I ended up reading it to this 20yo brunnette. Lets just say some of the lovely parts of the novel made her blush. Those were good times, those college days, but nevertheless all good things have to come to an end. I ended up reading that novel 3 more times. It was actually everything Buk hyped it up to be.

[@ezerbassradio]

What's your favorite? Mine is Ham on Rye

[@Pddy-je8pn]

I listen to this every once in a while. Each time it's better than before.

[@marcellavanoel6308]

"...less than a fart in an empty church." When I need to laugh I listen to Christian Baskous reading Bukowski, works every time.

[@jiggersotoole7823]

Me too!

[@pleasequietdown8946]

1:11:13 great 10 seconds 1:30:03 incredible chapter 1:42:44 waiting 1:46:20 more waiting and musings 1:51:02 one of my favorite lines 1:58:00 another great scene 3:05:39 rant

[@DaveSCameron]

thanks 👍

[@svalbard01]

I was going to bookmark the "waiting" bit, and this is here already. Wonderful! Thanks.

[@pleasequietdown8946]

@@svalbard01 love to hear it

[@Puppy_Puppington]

I wish there was an old school noir film about this :(

[@arielbonzai462]

The one with Matt Dillon would work better if he wasn’t so good looking. No reason you can’t make a noir version.

[@brokenalice218]

Oh fuck it, I'll just pour another beer and listen to this masterpiece instead of Black Sabbath. Better than phoning a girl telling her you feel lonely this evening.

[@davidleewrath6919]

6:12 - One of the best lines ever written.

[@ALLCAPS]

I love his RED impression! hahahaha "HEY, why don't you get the hell out of here!?"

[@weedywendy4266]

“workin’ in the other direction” is pretty ok, as well

[@Juan_Hernandez_Jr.]

Hahahaha........

[@domhemmingway1479]

Thanks for uploading this audiobook

[@ALLCAPS]

Anytime!

[@nickregan2874]

Your reading is impeccable. I bet this took you weeks and weeks to do it justice.

[@dermotthehermit5572]

Bukowski didn't just "spoof" Mickey Spillane, he wrote the book every person who ever cracked open a second-hand Philip K. Dick paperback was hoping to read. And in one-third the time. Great narration by the ghost of Chuck, "Christian Baskous".

[@DaveSCameron]

this is great comment 👍

[@madjoy8446]

Ive been waiting for this upload for so long!!!!!! Thank you!

[@dylanjohnson3114]

0glfOf119H0 was

[@lobsterwhisperer7932]

Finally an English version on KZbin..thank you dude

[@ALLCAPS]

No problem! :D I also had that frustration-- so I did something about it.

[@christopher.saint.christopher]

This guy has a great voice, especially for this book.

[@nopeno648]

“My eyes were blue, my shoes were old, and nobody loved me.”

[@garbamarinel7265]

The only book I ever red more than 3 times and still laugh

[@BROCK-hq9dn]

"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them..."

[@user-vi3sz3fg2r]

Perfect narration.

[@billybobb7252]

I Loved reading his books thanks for your effort.

[@dumyjobby]

This was wonderful.

[@knowid9559]

You don't know Hank

[@dumyjobby]

@@knowid9559 no i don't know Hank

[@matthewguillory5374]

Thanks for uploading

[@omegalgo297]

Thank you!👍

[@BigPhilly15]

This narrator is incredible. He does a Bukowski voice as if Bukowski were sober.

[@SusanMcNamara-er3jy]

q

[@sinisterminister4201]

A lovely surreal detective story.

[@mattih365]

I can't quit laughing.. Omfng.. this is great

[@amarsalmi7239]

Reading This Book in French. Bukowsky is a big big Writer.

[@bmphil3400]

I have been arguing with idiots on KZbin who think Bukowski is a lousy writer.....they say he is not in the same league as Keruac or Hunter Thompson. I think he is every bit as good and his knack for poetry puts him above them......

[@hankworden3850]

Is Kerouac even good? 🤷‍♂️

[@bmphil3400]

@@hankworden3850 I read "On the Road" and "Dharma Bums". They are pretty good but they are more like diaries or chronicals of events than stylistic writing. The chain of events are more interesting than the writing style. Think about the movie " Into the wild". That is very very close to the kinds of things Kerouac got into. Wandering all over and meeting all kinds of people.

[@julesfalcone]

@@hankworden3850 No. They are not in Bukowski's league.

[@dullknifefactory]

@@julesfalcone buk is not better than HST

[@julesfalcone]

@@dullknifefactory He's not better at doing psychedelics. Hunter S. Thompson sucks.

[@romansalama]

Thank you!

[@ALLCAPS]

You're welcome! :D

[@drmantistoboggan2870]

youre doing Gods work here, lad

[@MrDoctorColossus]

"It was like a fat sack of dead shit" Hahahaha

[@northover]

Christian Baskous channels Bukowski. An amazing job of reading...

[@savagebunny1440]

Thank you

[@SHUX-A7-13]

Spat, spat, spat, spatter, spat, spat spat, spat. - Bukowski

[@jgrullon32]

Bim bim bim- Charles bukowski

[@theokatman]

great stuff , loved the way it was narrated

[@brendashotwell1405]

Brings back memories of….❤❤😂😊great!

[@yepezcroquer]

Super genius Hank.

[@overlex]

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard and so many times throughout an audiobook! Or ANY Story for that matter! I’ve read HP Lovecraft, De Maupassant, Stephen King and Dostoyevsky... but Charles Bukowski is my new favourite! Next to GRRM

[@ALLCAPS]

Oh yeah! and Christian Baskous really does the narration justice!

[@overlex]

1 year later, and I’m back for another listen! Bukowski is immortal 🔥

[@overlex]

Back here 😁

[@Jose-oq6kj]

Come back again! @@overlex

[@jiggersotoole7823]

This might be even funnier than the naked lunch audio book. Wonderful. Ch 14 writer's lives Ch 26 xmas Ch 39 animals Ch 40 senselessness I'm listening to this again. It's just hilarious. Thanks for the upload.

[@cthulhuhandluke8026]

Thanks for this

[@50daysago14]

Baskous is a brilliant narrator for Bukowski and with his faster pace he just might be more fitting for this book.

[@ppom]

WAIT THANK YOU SO MUCH I NEEDED THIS FOR A PROJECT I LOVE YOU

[@ALLCAPS]

My pleasure! (:

[@MarbleStatueMillett]

So refreshing

[@matter9]

Hilarious! 😂 🤣 💀 🥩 🥃 🧊 brilliant parody and skillful writing. Narrator and recording and sound engineering also phenomenal! I doubt 💯 I doubt I’d have been as entertained if I had only read the work.

[@Junk65]

Great, San Pedro was perfect for him. It still is. His old hangouts on 6th st. Pacific ave has not changed much since he died. It’s a pretty cool place.

[@cesarbustos2349]

My favorite author. Period.

[@julesfalcone]

This comment should have more likes after 4 months.

[@pleasequietdown8946]

The end has nearly brought me to tears

[@ALLCAPS]

Yeah..... it was hard to listen too.

[@ALLCAPS]

Do a quick search for the symbolism of the ending and the color yellow! You'll find it to be quite sad; especially having to be the last novel Buk wrote knowing about his leukemia.

[@pleasequietdown8946]

@@ALLCAPS the whole thing was just so entertaining, and i didnt realize till the end that i had gotten attached to the main character. and i didn't know it was his last book. i'll have to do some reading, and listen again

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Same here. :(

[@newagehorror873]

Went from Post office to Hollywood to this third.

[@ALLCAPS]

New Age Horror You should do this one last, I suggest. (x For me it was Women, Ham On Rye, Post Office, Factotum, Hollywood, Pulp, and South of no North.

[@northover]

Ham on Rye", the first in the series of his life, imo, is the best...at least the one read by Christian Baskous on audible.com

[@baabacksalimy8307]

Thx a lot

[@andrewkennaugh4974]

I'm living a solo life. Deep end drugs, too. This was interesting.

[@batsky6061]

What’s it like?

[@baronsaturday9529]

I too am a genteel bum of satisfied poverty. Lonely, poor, stoned, and happy.... :)

[@batsky6061]

It’s interesting how a man could be so coarse, so filthy, yet so beautiful.

[@cesarbustos2349]

That’s cool

[@jmpsthrufyre]

Honest to a fault?

[@annalisavajda252]

Well I think he was disgusted with the world too but just had a way of trying to adapt to it and accept it because what else would he do but commit suicide and maybe he was intentionally trying to shorten his life with the heavy drinking rather than shoot himself like Hemingway. No doubt he was depressed imo.

[@charlesmintus3063]

Top drawer writing. No comparison to anything else....

[@julesfalcone]

@Jeff Baker Charles, what do you think of Mamet?

[@grahamcrossan4217]

Good one

[@MrDaneuro]

this is strange, the man who reads often sounds exactly like bukowski

[@DPRS6]

christian baskous is great at reading bukowski.

[@jacksypher3403]

Put the speed to .75% he sounds even more like him

[@jimmiemcgarry343]

@@jacksypher3403 .5

[@jacksypher3403]

@@jimmiemcgarry343 even more so lol

[@stimso]

Hardly. Not bad read but not like Bukowski at all in my opinion.

[@tshepojason7309]

47:00 BEST SCENE

[@juliusevola3729]

The guy's voice reminds me of Bukowski.

[@leannettepuddy989]

My 15 cat's love the sound of Uncle Charlie's voice 😺 🐝 🍻 ✌️ 💕

[@hankworden3850]

I feel crazy!

[@Me-yf9lt]

Sounds like Norm Macdonald.

[@baronsaturday2103]

*Hahahaha.... This is great!*

[@dennismason3740]

I was two miles away when the above photo was taken at the patio at 3rd and Fairfax.

[@ALLCAPS]

that's awesome!!

[@dennismason3740]

@@ALLCAPS - If I had only known...I would have been there.

[@dennismason3740]

@@ALLCAPS - yes it is. I could have been there in 15 minutes on my bicycle. It's his spirit that's awesome and you don't need proximity to engage Buke's spirit. I drank wine with Linda Lee (his wife) one night in West Hollywood in 1980. I was kicked out of the library the next day when I couldn't stop laughing at her husband's writing (my first Bukowski read). I got sober in 1982, 41 years now.

[@dennismason3740]

Yup. 15 minutes on bicycle. There was (is?) a cafeteria there that would offer a huge plate of good hot food for $1.50.

[@ianking-jv4hg]

as a reformed sober boy i never sleep on my back knowing that both Jimi Hendrix and Bon Scott died from whatever and Alcohol whilst lying on their back.

[@morcamilla]

This is fun❤

[@brokenalice218]

Wonderfully read.

[@ryanjeanes5253]

a glorious dizzyness of flesh

[@nonamegonzalez5711]

I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born 🤣💀 holy fuck

[@5kehhn]

Enjoyable.

[@michaelscreen6921]

Amazing Mickey Spillane spoof

[@bryanbrasher6011]

We were vegetables, I was one of those, I don't know what kind of vegetable I was, I felt like a turnip. I lit a cigar, inhaled, and pretended that I knew what the hell.

[@rexcamproductions.2191]

1:10:04 did anyone else forget that was a dream and say what the F… When the bartender started eating the pigeon. Oh my gosh, what words don’t you just love? The pictures painted your head as you listen.

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

"I watched two flies fucking" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@heyitMeMcFlyunfortunately]

not as fun as it sounds unfortunately

[@davidleewrath6919]

Christian Baskous is a fucking great voice actor.

[@ALLCAPS]

Yes I did! I remember wanting to listen to this audio-book. Being broke. Not able to purchase a membership with Audible made me miserable. I hated my inner reader's voice, and reading aloud wasn't interesting to me either. The narration of Christian Baskous always fascinated me. After realizing, there're no posts for Pulp, I made it my mission to find a copy. Here we are.

[@ALLCAPS]

If this channel, for whatever reason, gets deleted. I need you to know: these audiobooks and recordings will be re-uploaded. I will try and name my new KZbin account the same, use the same image and keep the legacy going. It's my duty to share Buk's work. I'm non-profit, and don't care about money. I just want people to enjoy his work. Let's have a drink.

[@davidleewrath6919]

ALL CAPS His swan song and his first book I ever bought. I had enjoyed Buk previously but this book was mine and only mine. It also got me hooked on film noir. The Arkansas bit had me in tears when I read it and every time I remember it I laugh like the very first time.

[@julesfalcone]

@@ALLCAPS You're the real deal.

[@ALLCAPS]

@@julesfalcone Thank you, Jules, I really appreciate the feedback! :D

[@JustSomeGuyOk]

Sounds like stories from my twenties

[@RustyCohle]

I need to listen to this at .75x, because I'm drunk.

[@Jason-ji4sy]

Wow, that ending... the whole thing. Fuck man... life changing. What an ending.

[@BertWald-wp9pz]

I once worked with a woman called Miss De’Ath. One day I suddenly realized and thought, I would have changed the name. At least it was not her vocation like the woman in this book.

[@leechamberlain1876]

That "why you fat fuck"as belane explained why he pulled away from Nitro made me fucking howl. Fucking brilliant 🤣🤣

[@dereksmallsuk]

Thank fuck for Bukowski. 2021.

[@ayoubbabiker5770]

The book with the funniest threats..

[@julesfalcone]

Ayoub: and the most kicks to the nuts.

[@overlex]

I hope Millennials and Gen Z don’t kill Bukowski.. that would be a crime against literature

[@ALLCAPS]

You can't kill BUK! For he is immortal.

[@jedrayne3636]

What the fuck does this even mean

[@Pygmy_God]

@@jedrayne3636 that's what I'm saying, any generation can enjoy an author.

[@Pygmy_God]

@John Martlew my guy I'm born in 1997, I'm drunk rn at 11:15 pm in Florida

[@IMissedChurchForThis]

3:04:13 AUDIOBOOK MISTAKE. The reader calls the lady "Nick" even though that's his (the speaker's) name.

[@ALLCAPS]

haha good catch!

[@ALLCAPS]

It seems that the original text says: “No, I can’t, Kitty. I gotta take a piss.”

[@Caligari...]

I need to hear Hanks voice .

[@dennismason3740]

@ALL CAPS - MISTERwoops Christian Baskous you are an effin' genius. I could not do any interpretation of Buke that was not an imitation of yours. You do him better than he does, maybe it's just the technology. Shure SM-58. I got drunk with Linda Lee one night in 1980. She's alright.

[@timothywideman6837]

This should be a Cohen Brothers movie.

[@spacealienjesus709]

His last book Reads like it as well

[@lolsup9817]

He has lukemia, must have been pretty brutal trying to write while your body is in agony

[@spacealienjesus709]

@DrT 2000 I try

[@spacealienjesus709]

@@lolsup9817 Most of his writings come from struggle..

[@lolsup9817]

Space Alien Jesus what are u talking about? I’m not talking about what the writing comes from, I’m saying it must have been hard for him to write because he was dying the whole time

[@spacealienjesus709]

@@lolsup9817 I took it the wrong way and for that I apologize..but I was not being mean

[@JohnsGuineaPigs]

I like the profile picture and the content

[@domukelis]

I love you Hank

[@redshift1976]

Her name was Trachea LMAO

[@pobehlicaCaptava]

🥃Hank is King🍺🍷🚬

[@eatbagels9625]

This is great!