South Of No North by Charles Bukowski

[@drazenamadeus]

0:43 loneliness 12:00 bap bap against that curtain 25:30 you and your beer and how great you are 36:28 no way to paradise 46:06 politics 55:21 love for 17.50 1:07:41 couple of wino's 1:19:21 mah jah turab 1:30:38 the killers 1:42:05 a man 1:50:22 class 1:58:32 stop staring at my tits, mister 2:06:38 something about the vietkong flag 2:13:01 you can't write a love story 2:19:39 remember pearl harbor 2:29:14 Pittsburgh Phil and company 2:41:44 Dr nazi 2:53:56 Christ on rollerskates 3:05:15 a shipping clerk with a red nose 3:20:04 the devil was hot 3:32:53 guts 3:43:50 hitman 3:50:33 this is what killed Dillon Thomas 4:00:37 no neck and bad as hell 4:14:37 the way the dead love 4:40:51 all the assholes in the world and mine 5:15:55 confessions of a man Insane enough to live with beasts

[@ЛеонУайт]

Thanks a lot

[@ALLCAPS]

Sorry! Forgot to pin you along with the description shout out (: cheers

[@drazenamadeus]

@@ALLCAPS now you go and make me all blush 😁☺️ Feeling strangely satisfied...

[@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 😎

[@larindanomikos]

I love this narrator.

[@dennismason3740]

In 1980 I was homeless and drunk everynight. A pretty young woman named Diane found me charming in a sick way and occasionally we would drink together in her horrible apartment in West Hollywood. Diane worked as a receptionist for her rich father's publishing company. Her apartment was open to the stylish punks from local bands and her apartment was trashed. Taking a shower demanded that I clean the bathroom before I would step foot into the stall. One night Diane introduced me to an articulate, attractive woman named Linda . Diane went out clubbing and left us drinking cheap wine and talking. She talked a lot and spoke of a man I had heard of due to his column in the L.A. Free Press and I had not read any of his books nor his column. We continued to drink and I don't recall what was said. I did remember her boyfriend's name (husband?) - Charles Bukowski. I passed out and when I woke up I asked Diane about Bukowski. "Go to the library" she said and I did. A few weeks and three novels later I was convinced that this author was the greatest writer I had ever read.

[@codymartin5102]

Dennis Mason That’s a cool story. Ol’ Hollywood ain’t what she used to be.

[@dennismason3740]

@@codymartin5102 - I tread by Kevin Smith's podcast with Marc whatzizname bar, called the Villains Cantina frequently with dreadnaught 12 string and homemade mallets and I sing songs right outside the bar. I have yet to meet my neighbor. I used to clean a house on Outpost. I am Old Hollywood. They call me the Janitor or the Mango Man, depending of course. No more alcohol, so fifties, weed's fine. Aloha.

[@trissloan2340]

"Greatest ever," is very heavy. But you said of the authors you met. "Met," as in, figuratively or literally. What if he is the only one you met??"Met," as in ,"read"???

[@bamboosa]

@@trissloan2340 - Yup. Same to me.

[@bamboosa]

@@trissloan2340 - and obviously "greatest ever" means "my favorite".

[@slimaldo1638]

I’ve finished this so many times. I fall asleep to it. Thanks so much ALLCAPS

[@ALLCAPS]

Oh wow! Thats what I do! Hahaha ill watch it and listen to it like 300 times before finally finishing it... by then i know it front to back. (x like a bubble sort

[@lordofvillains9412]

The Geogre Carlin of literature.

[@AndrewMarloweTV]

Bukowski may have a rough reputation but he really is one of the most beautiful American writers ever , tender, tough and calm in a sense hard to describe

[@ALLCAPS]

yeah... people will ask me to describe Buk and i'll just get this huge brain fart.. and say things like that... "Beautiful, Raw, Sharp."

[@trewqpoiutl9774]

I don't know if it's the writing or the audiobook reader, or a combination of both.

[@alfogel3298]

andrew marlowe : Too many ignore his art and are more interested in his personality. So pleased that Harper is making these audios. Back in the 70s I edited a small press mag and Buk sent me a poem but I rejected it ( wasn’t that good) but it led to an extensive correspondence because we both loved to play the horses. I started collecting Bukowski rare books and chapbooks and asked if I sent him books he would sign them. He consented as long as I sent an SASE. Fast forward , I ended up with 28 letters between us , all his rare books but regretfully ( due to financial reasons) sold my collection in 1982 for $15,000 ( today’s replacement value $300,000! OUCH! ! Al

[@countrichardvoncoudenhovek8855]

@@alfogel3298 oh wow you should right a short story on your correspondence, a nice way to pass on the memories.

[@1060michaelg]

@@ALLCAPS With Buk there is absolutely no camouflage.

[@domhemmingway1479]

ALL CAPS many thanks for uploading bukowski audio books

[@ALLCAPS]

DOM HEMMINGWAY remeber if i get s strike or taken down i’ll always re-up the next few days just look for the same title

[@christopherogley1714]

Immortal poetry from sweetheart fistfighter...Dionysian drunkard..The voice of the American schoolyard is beaten again in superb style...Top posting. I dearly love this man...if there is an archetype barfly writer ..you can bet your bottom dollar Hank is brawling with him in the alley behind the pantheon bar in the afterlife for bragging rights...You made it Charles ..you made it. .Imortality..it took a while but you made it

[@mindsigh4]

yes, suffering burrowed a hole in his guts something broke and sprouted from it, it is as real as words get, he gave until gone. & he was good to his cats.

[@codymartin5102]

The Hemingway boxing story, Stop Staring at My Tits Mister, and Something about a Vietnam Flag are a triple threat of awesomely entertaining and over the top storytelling! Love it!

[@ww7883]

More than anything in his prose, I hear a little boy screaming, "Why am I here? This place is so foul, and these sadistic two-legged creatures are nearly intolerable...except some of the women."

[@ALLCAPS]

3:54:23 my favorite line. HAHAHA

[@winniethuo9736]

1:13:00 "It was like any other impossible job, you got tired and you wanted to quit and then you got more tired and forgot to quit and the minutes did not move you lived forever inside in a one minute with no hope, no out trapped; too damn to quit nowhere to go if you did quit" Are you the lucky one who has not experienced this? I am worlds apart from my Man Bukowski but I feel him in me often. He is a human - being. He is my meditation springboard. I connect better with the question of death due to people like Man B. He lives in my psyche and has mutated part of it by sharing how he faced his time on earth. He lived life as it presented itself to him without pretending to have special access to such and such spheres. He keot grinding without promising himself a unique opportunity in this life or after. He used opportunities that presented themselves to him but did not get attached for exploitation. Unique.

[@intoxicatedmooneyes]

I have the same experience with Jim Morrison. He lives in me and I speak with him often. I would love to connect with chuck though..

[@eladsinger9215]

"It was like any other impossible job, you got tired and you wanted to quit and then you got more tired and forgot to quit and the minutes did not move you lived forever inside in a one minute with no hope, no out trapped; too damn to quit nowhere to go if you did quit" Are you the lucky one who has not experienced this?" No----I was in the military once.

[@dennismason3740]

@ALL CAPS - congratulations on the channel name. You won the jackpot on that roll. I write, I compose, I play a hundred instruments, half of which I built. I don't listen to classical music when I write/compose/play/sing however I sometimes listen to a guy named Christian reading stories. Sometimes it doesn't blend if I'm laughing too much. You are doing the Lord's Work.

[@RobMorganest1983]

BUK - all caps when we spell the mans name

[@oscarslater6123]

the way he talks about wanting to kill himself is so raw and sadly relatable. he knew the human condition better than anyone else

[@williambock1821]

I swear there are a bunch of narrators who take Bukowski impression lessons.

[@zenpaganwarrior]

thx for this ALL CAPS. love all the rare photos you added as well.

[@ALLCAPS]

Chris Robideaux thank you for the recognition. (:

[@shucksful]

The narrator sounds more suited towards reading detective novels…too bad Hank didn’t pull off reading his own work. There’s no voice better. He certainly had the free time.

[@johnsun3854]

TL; DR: '' BIM BIM BIM''

[@trewqpoiutl9774]

Thank you so much for uploading this audiobook, first time listen for me, and truly enjoying it.

[@pierce_13]

The voice actor is a goddamn stud!

[@jugglersantini5569]

Dangerously funny, intelligently addictive, wonderfully rhythmic. Great writer, great reader.

[@J_International]

I agree he reads in a manner similar to Bukowski himself.

[@eladsinger9215]

And he writes IN ALL CAPS QUITE A BIT

[@johnruggiero4205]

To me Hank is the most important American author of the ENTIRE 20th century. Yes, I’m including my #2 Hemingway. Hank gave us something unique. So unique and beautiful in its elegance & lack of metaphor makes me giddy.

[@MrUnit731]

Thanks for sharing. Excellent book.

[@VillaG89]

1:50:20 Bukowski versus Hemingway (boxing)

[@willdaniels3272]

I swear this narrator channeled bukowskis voice and style.

[@messiahgodstar7609]

I fucking died with laughter at this part 2:44:00

[@cuddlycactus6378]

My own personal favorite part of this particular book - 36:28 No Way To Paradise My name is Dawn and I simply love: What is your name? Dawn... it's a terrible name...but that's what mothers do to their children sometimes. I'm Hank... I looked at Dawn, she was young and beautiful, she seemed to have good insides too. Charles Hank Bukowski was pure creative genius. He was truly a gift to the world. He shared not only his talent, but his agony and anguish, his vulnerable raw emotions, he weaved them into his words in such a unique way that I only wish he had stuck around longer, yet I am glad and grateful he shared his artwork with all of us. (And it is just a GD shame that he was not recognized sooner, yet the old adage - Better Late Than Never comes to mind) And we are all certainly better off with all of his writings. He was a gift to the world.

[@winniethuo9736]

Recognition can be exploitative. CB did not care about the recognition he is like Jiddu Krishnamurti. Two very different human beings but united by their willingness to be used as mirrors of what being a human is. Most of us are looking for sorting out the world as if we are outside looking in. We are human. We are Charles Bukowski and his characters.

[@Сте-е4ь]

Yes, the part of the mother stayed with me

[@grudzz7049]

Bu K stuff is a funny tag get chair out of car in korea n parlance. I like this guy.

[@ЛеонУайт]

25:30 - You and your beer 36:27 - No way to Paradise 46:10 - Politics 55:20 - Love for 17.50 $ 1:07:42 - A couple of winos 1:19:23 - Maja 1:30:39 - The Killers 1:42:04 - A Man 1:58:33 - Stop staring at my tits ... 2:19:38 - Remember Pearl Harbor ? (Jail) 2:29:16 Pittsburgh Phil. (Races) 3:43:48 Hit man 3:50:35 Dylan Thomas 4:00:36 - No neck and bad as... 4:40:50 - All the assholes... Dr. Nazi- 2:41:45 (24 cpts)

[@MarthaColburn]

❤

[@aaronjennings8385]

This channel is a treasure.

[@breakfastfoodanddarkhaired280]

Thank for uploading man. Saves us all a little money and a lot of time

[@ALLCAPS]

No problem! Stay tuned for ThinkSpot "ts.today" to be up! once they're up--I'm switching and I will post the Bukowski Tapes on there! :D KZbin doesn't allow me to post the tapes. 3 hours of pure bukowski!

[@boadicea5856]

There will never be another Charles Hank Bukowski in the world again. And that makes me so sad

[@maxmeeks9910]

True, but a man with oxygen exactly resembling him and using the phrase "Baby" did wish me luck at a Panera Bread as I published my 2nd book with him referenced inside. True story.

[@shingles4947]

Really appreciate the upload. Cannot thank you enough. Best wishes.

[@robbiepeterh]

I’ve tried several times to get into his novels. I love his poetry but just find his novels to be unbelievably boring

[@ALLCAPS]

1:42:04 funny story

[@adamfox1669]

Thanks for sharing these. Stuck inside after car accident and I can’t take opiates (well, I could). Whole new understanding of pain. If not for Hank & co I’d go nuts

[@DangerfieldChris]

I know that one. We’ll done for risking it.

[@Mo_Ketchups]

Sweet jebus THANK YOU so much for your time & effort to help spread the Gospels of Hank! ✌️🤘🤘👏👏

[@svalbard01]

No way to Paradise is hilarious! Like a saucy Gulliver!

[@Bengun67]

... street wise, So vivid ! ( Makes you love Life, no matter what )

[@drmantistoboggan2870]

the best bukowski book. excellent narrator

[@jimw.4161]

One word for this man: GENIUS!

[@clocksfinle7]

narrator does a killer bukowski.👌

[@HorribleHomeVideo]

not bad for not being read Bukowski himself (but tbh nobody reads Buk like Buk)

[@gleeart]

Just think, one day all C.B.'s work will be banned on this type of platform/forum. Oh brave new world when that day comes & the new creatures have expunged it.

[@eladsinger9215]

Hank was the best writer ever.

[@theonlyantony]

Natural writer - edged out from regular assumption of societal mores, by dint of a domineering, violent and obviously mentally ill father, whose churned and solidified pride, must have suffered silent fellowship among the men of depression-era America. And from the prism’s margins the light pours out of the quill

[@alexkaufmann9252]

Yo

[@jordanreps7101]

The absurd hydrogen electronmicroscopically shrug because gasoline normally refuse circa a tan owner. opposite, handsomely headlight

[@terrysteichen873]

A true revolutionary

[@christopherogley1714]

Make it about death and horror ..I knew. I'd been doing it my whole life. .

[@rodneyadderton1077]

Who is the lady in the Star Wars shirt?

[@ALLCAPS]

Charles Bukowski's wife Linda.

[@rodneyadderton1077]

@@ALLCAPS Thanks, appreciate you.

[@arkantika3927]

I guess Linda and Hank were big Star Wars fans lol 😂

[@wallflower6962]

Just posted a new video "for they had things to say" by Charles Bukowski

[@davidleewrath6919]

Thanks a lot, man. You rock!

[@ALLCAPS]

Jack Deveini Noooo problem.

[@Charmagh110]

4:10:00

[@Charmagh110]

3:24:02

[@Charmagh110]

30:00

[@abubakar-dp9kr]

3:18:54

[@larindanomikos]

The guy reading this is so great, too. Good job!

[@taramilton8695]

Such a wonderful rendition , absolutely perfect! Thank you...

[@marclynch314]

The one where he boxed the head off Ernie Hemmingway.

[@danandersen813]

stiverter,sjoferter og historier om almindeligt afsind,is the title of a collection of his short storys from City Lights,a bookpublishing company.In danish.Are there any danish Bukowskifans here?

[@MIB_63]

Jeg er en af dem.

[@bradley-cc3id]

Sharp as a razor, soft as a prayer

[@dominicgarrison4545]

Carnival of American decay on parade

[@dennismason3740]

Oops - not met. Read. The greatest author I had ever read.

[@johns8596]

4:43:48

[@daviddyer9066]

Play at 0-75

[@Charmagh110]

2:16:00

[@Charmagh110]

3:16:00

[@iggybug1]

2:06:43 Something about a Viet cong flag

[@joaofrancisco5868]

[@keeszondervrees8787]

Thank you

[@076663837]

The reader's voice is so similar to Bukowski's. Nice!!

[@Caleb983]

Slow it down to .75 and it sounds just like him

[@johnruggiero4205]

hfvkhnml yes it is. A little less gruff, but a lot of similarities

[@1060michaelg]

@@Caleb983 I'll be damn if you're not right! It sounds like Buk took an Ambien with a beer...but it's him! Good catch!

[@gabes3dvideos]

Wow, almost scarily so, like confirmation of simulation theory.

[@mindsigh4]

@@1060michaelg yes, a natural

[@cuauhtemocbravo9412]

"Se busca una mujer" Came here looking for the original since i read it in spanish .. i had to know the dialogues without translation.

[@ALLCAPS]

If you'd like, I could probably get my hands on the Spanish audiobook for you! And post it

[@cuauhtemocbravo9412]

@@ALLCAPS Thanks I meant I have the book in spanish from Spain..and it's great but is always better the work in its mother thong. Thanks again man .

[@Shmyrk]

5:02:57 😂

[@samlavigne1267]

8+

[@christhetramp]

36:00 - 46:00 amazing!

[@Ynainah]

3:46:11

[@theknappster2067]

I bet Bukowski would be drunk as shit during this pandemic

[@valleyoffertility]

Well yeah. He was drunk as shit all the time 😂

[@SOAKESTV]

35:17

[@m.g9011]

The silly voice impressions... just unnecessary, that kinda limited my enjoyment (Thanks for the upload)

[@ALLCAPS]

Hey, a lot of people resonate with the narrator. I think his voice impressions are fine and they help keep things moving. Yes, they unnecessary, but they don't seem to distract me. Sorry to hear about your experience and you're very welcome!!

[@m.g9011]

@@ALLCAPS I like his voice and reading, he keeps it interesting, but at some points it doesn't quiet fit, during fights for instance, it should be intense rather than funny. Thanks again for the upload And thanks for the reply

[@farrider3339]

@@m.g9011 : buy book and read yourself .•°

[@m.g9011]

@Far Rider Hey momo!.. guess how I figured that the impressions don't fit?.. I had the book and I read it couple of times long before listening to this. @Ace Freeley get a job, will you?

[@indorilneravar4470]

​​@@m.g9011So? It's still your own imposition on character voice. Just as Baskous's impressions are his own. Dialogue is a fictive construct. Best you, the voice actor, or any one else can do is "hear" them clearly and consistently enough. Only Buck himself knew how the people sounded, and even then he was well aware of authorial licence.

[@redbed5060]

30:00

[@funderspunder8148]

55:27

[@farrider3339]

Stop posting silly numbers - say somting ;) .•°

[@robertafierro5592]

Either you love him or you hate him!

[@kantikun134970]

Is 4:52:00 supposed to have pauses for effect? Or is some audio lost here? (Honest question, just wondering)

[@ALLCAPS]

Audio is most likely lost. It's not a render issue though--this is how the file was obtained. :/

[@kantikun134970]

Thank you for the reply!

[@cableguy209]

215

[@jackshitthelastamericanher4139]

Has anyone else noticed that this reading isn't in order or is it the way it's supposed to be?

[@ALLCAPS]

Jack Shit The Last American Hero elaborate?

[@jackshitthelastamericanher4139]

@@ALLCAPS it cut up, like its not in order.

[@ALLCAPS]

@@jackshitthelastamericanher4139 No matter! I enjoyed it either way. Hopefully it's all there.

[@jackshitthelastamericanher4139]

@@ALLCAPS I enjoy it too. It's on I haven't heard, thought I heard them all.

[@jackshitthelastamericanher4139]

I love Bukowski ...I'll take what I can get.

[@slysawyer5022]

Fantastic share. Thank you.