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Charles Bukowski

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Read one of his books when I was about 20.

Can’t remember anything about it, except that it was boring.

Can anyone - say, carc - persuade me to try again with dissolute degenerate?
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Ham on Rye was ok. Try that. I don't necessarily think Bukowkski was a great author, for me it was more about his attitude and lifestyle. It's a little like JG Ballard. Ballard was about ideas, not about prose. Bukowski was unconventional. Phillip K. Dick is another example. Authors who didn't play the fame game. I suppose you could place Hemmingway into the cannon. And certainly Salinger. These men are my heroes.
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The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith, if you want to read a really great existentialist work. Or try All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir. Most of the really out there writers are women, they just don't attract the same kudos as the drunkards, drug takers and larger than life men that seem to be the standard bearers for unconventional fiction.
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A friend of mine wrote a novel and before he sent it out to publishers he read an article by Elmore Leonard called 'The ten rules of writing a novel'(or something like that). Anyway, one of the rules was 'never use more than three exclamation marks in your book'. My mate used his software to see how many he'd used. It was over three thousand.
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Not sure that can be applied to every novel, really.

It'd be pretty weird to read a horror novel with everyone deadpanning it, for instance.

"oh my god, hes dead."

"help me. dracula's raping my arse."

"That zombie just ripped off Tarquins arm."
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carcinogen wrote:Ham on Rye was ok.


Cheers.

Will give that a go.
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