Factotum by Charles Bukowski Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Factotum
Book Review: no titile please
Summary: 5 Stars
italians begging for nickels in the palozzo... most jobs are as satisfying and rewarding. for most a glimpse into the world of meaningless expenditure of energy. the gentility rubs its nose while dog biscuits and coconut are shoveled. on the banks of lake superior the ice bergs still float in during the month of june. a good book is just as rare. robert pinsky says that bukowski is pretty good for childs lit. i say tht pinsky should stick to being lauerate and let someone else write the news/poetry.Book Review: one of Bukowski's best
Summary: 5 Stars
The quality of Bukowski's poetry is questionable. His short stories are very sharp, very desperate, very amused. Tthe short stories are what Bukowski did best, while his novels are of very uneven quality.
This said, the three novels of Bukowski's trilogy (Factotum, Post Office, Women) are his best novels and factotum is the best of the three. Women was written and published in the late 1970s when Bukowski or his alter ego Henry Chinaski was already an establihsed professional writer. Post Office covers the years in which he Bukowski had a sort of regular job and regular life.
Factotum is the story of the young Bukowski, the Bukowski that was rolling from a job to another, from a town to another, from a woman to another, in an impressive collections of failures--failed jobs, failed relationships, failed everything all told with a considerable amount of irony.
It's a very interesting read, to say the least. Five stars.
Book Review: sweet entertaining read
Summary: 5 Stars
Either you like the man or you don't. If you have ever read any of his books and you liked them then you will like this one too. If you are a christian you will probably not like this, not because it is not good but because he can be very vulgar at times. I love his work and I own everything I have been able to find. There are some very good dvd's about him too.Book Review: welcome to the working week
Summary: 5 Stars
Another Classic. A series of jobs and weird situations during the 4o's in America. He dispatches the end of WWII with a sentence or two!Book Review: why don't people read more of his work? oh yeah...
Summary: 5 Stars
now come on, this has become a classic in my mind.
who else can have a character lose as many jobs, drink as many bottles of port wine,
and have as many one night stands in their novels as charles bukowski does in five chapters?
i profess my love to his memory. also see POST OFFICE