The Pleasures of the Damned

To all the mundane beings who are tired of their mundane life and want a not so mundane commentary about the beauty of a naked rugged real life and relate to it in the rawest form possible , go for it.This book has a good collection of Bukowski's work ranging from his early to late works . A good place to start and know the writer and his style which is unlikely any other.

Love Charles Bukowski, his poems helped me in my darkest time. Thank you.

The book of poems is a pure madness created by a sickened madman. The truth of madness is what the madness itself is. Madness in men of society are studied and categorized in the field of psychology. I feel that Psychology is all about studying people who fails to fit into a society presuming the overall mass in the society have already attained normalcy curve in the distribution. Those normalcy curve when it becomes too normal to the extent people stopped looking elsewhere, a certain ways and rules and norms to hold to the extent it becomes the very rule destroying out the possibilities of life. Few people are too curious about the base structure and functioning of the things and stuffs around. They either become intellectual genius or called sociopaths by the genius of the crowd.Although half the poems are about his encounters with women and girls and how he fornicated them and how they fornicated him with life, there's is sense of originality. Irrespective of good or bad, virtuous or evil, less of conformity and more of originality."Jack London drinking his life away whilewriting of strange and heroic men.Eugene O’Neill drinking himself obliviouswhile writing his dark and poeticworks.now our modernslecture at universitiesin tie and suit,the little boys soberly studious,the little girls with glazed eyeslooking up,the lawns so green, the books so dull,the life so dying ofthirst."

If you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of an old lust starved man, Bukowski is the guy for you. This collection of poems will make you fall in love with him. Simply Brilliant. I'd recommend reading it in small doses, the poems are pretty heavy.

The man was open to seeing all the problems with the human condition but couldn't liberate himself from them. More honest than most people.

Great book..

Charles Bukowski's poetry is simple, easy to understand yet very elusive, profound and mystical. The profundity in his poetry arises from the poet's deep sense of sincerity and honesty with which he sees life and tries to express the same through unaffected language. There is a relentless effort on the part of the poet to be intentionally unpoetic by completely doing away with the conventional "poetic" language, form and style. Readers of poetry must at least for once pick up Bukowski's poetry to see for themselves the magic that his poetry creates. I feel rich to own this brilliant and definitive collection of Bukowski's poems.

Of course buy Love is a Dog from Hell instead of this one; this has some generic stuff by him that doesn't nearly capture what Bukowski is all about. If you want classic Bukowski, just go for the original books.

My sons very happy thank you Amazon for the speedy delivery

A little more beat up as a used copy than indicated.

Its like marmite, you'll either love it or hate it. But what you'll get is down to earth and often in the gutter stuff with Bukowski.

Pleasant to read, I recommend. Many works of Bukowski who, in his own style, depicts his vision on life.

Había leído un libro del autor (Bukowski) y me gustó mucho. Este libro es una recopilación de poemas que me ha gustado mucho. Tiene una escritura muy libre y característica. Habla de la mala vida y de cómo él la ve desde dentro. El inglés es muy avanzado, por lo que no se lo recomiendo para gente que no lo domine muy bien.Es una recopilación de poemas de otros libros (creo que también tiene alguno original), así que si has leído más de este autor, igual este libro no es para ti.