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# Women: A Novel

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Review: human, all too human - for a long time i've resisted reading bukowski becuase i sort of thought it might be a bit adolescent . How wrong can you be .This was superb honest and moving .A real account of real relationships and real existence. It's also very funny at points . The narrator chinski is unfailingly honest about himself and the live he leads which stops the book becoming a series of macho conquests .The women give as good as they get in the main and chinski comes across as less of an aggressor and more of a victim of his own desires (as men in real life generally are ) He also allows himself to be very vulnerable, which is what is missing from almost all literary novels .The authors have the technique down....but not the desire to show themselves in all their disgusting, faded ,glorious, human detail . After reading this i went on to read 'Factotum' , 'Love is a dog from hell and other poems' and 'Ham on rye'. All were quite superb ...particularly ' Ham on rye '. It's been a very long time since i've discovered a writer who makes me want to read book after book ..... and also effects the way you see life . You begin to understand through bukowski that the pain we all feel at times in life, is not some terrible thing fate has singled us out to suffer.... but is a part of life to be accepted. In cocnclusion, I'd give it 6 stars if i could.....
Review: 3 and a half stars - Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. it reads well doesnt it.... made me want to buy it... I read this book right to the end and it was consistent. The first thing that first struck me was his repeated use of the 'c' word (with four letters, ending in unt) to describe what others might call 'pussy'. For some reason i found that a bit too much, but i will put that down to social conditioning. The book reads well, i felt like an alcoholic writer by the end of it, put it that way. An alcoholic writer who was getting a lot of sex from all sorts of different women. 3 and half stars mostly because the author is so revered for his other books. I have finished reading 'women' and am looking around for other books in a similar genre which are just as sexy, just as debaucherous and have a common thread sewn into the plot, but not as vulgar and one dimensional. It lacks emotion. Its a fine line between boring sexual dribble and a novel which actually has some emotion and story telling behind it. This was close, but it didnt tick all the boxes for me. Having said that, i would buy it again and read it if i had never read it...this books makes me want to look into his other books.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #36,100 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #302 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #868 in Classic Literature & Fiction #1,952 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,820 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ human, all too human
*by N***Y on May 1, 2006*

for a long time i've resisted reading bukowski becuase i sort of thought it might be a bit adolescent . How wrong can you be .This was superb honest and moving .A real account of real relationships and real existence. It's also very funny at points . The narrator chinski is unfailingly honest about himself and the live he leads which stops the book becoming a series of macho conquests .The women give as good as they get in the main and chinski comes across as less of an aggressor and more of a victim of his own desires (as men in real life generally are ) He also allows himself to be very vulnerable, which is what is missing from almost all literary novels .The authors have the technique down....but not the desire to show themselves in all their disgusting, faded ,glorious, human detail . After reading this i went on to read 'Factotum' , 'Love is a dog from hell and other poems' and 'Ham on rye'. All were quite superb ...particularly ' Ham on rye '. It's been a very long time since i've discovered a writer who makes me want to read book after book ..... and also effects the way you see life . You begin to understand through bukowski that the pain we all feel at times in life, is not some terrible thing fate has singled us out to suffer.... but is a part of life to be accepted. In cocnclusion, I'd give it 6 stars if i could.....

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 3 and a half stars
*by T***D on June 12, 2012*

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. it reads well doesnt it.... made me want to buy it... I read this book right to the end and it was consistent. The first thing that first struck me was his repeated use of the 'c' word (with four letters, ending in unt) to describe what others might call 'pussy'. For some reason i found that a bit too much, but i will put that down to social conditioning. The book reads well, i felt like an alcoholic writer by the end of it, put it that way. An alcoholic writer who was getting a lot of sex from all sorts of different women. 3 and half stars mostly because the author is so revered for his other books. I have finished reading 'women' and am looking around for other books in a similar genre which are just as sexy, just as debaucherous and have a common thread sewn into the plot, but not as vulgar and one dimensional. It lacks emotion. Its a fine line between boring sexual dribble and a novel which actually has some emotion and story telling behind it. This was close, but it didnt tick all the boxes for me. Having said that, i would buy it again and read it if i had never read it...this books makes me want to look into his other books.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Engrossing Voice In A Book "Every Man Needs To Read"
*by G***R on May 4, 2016*

I read Women immediately following Post Office, and it is also a part of my Esquire 75 Books Every Man Needs To Read reading challenge. Women is the 20th book on the list (not including books I will be rereading). After the death of his postal career along with the love of his life, Bukowski’s Chianski begins to scour trashy America for experience, art, booze, and sex. His career is beginning to take off and he can do more than merely survive in his existence, and he begins to explore himself and his relationships in this semi-autobiographical novel about much the same things as his other novels, but with a marked difference in literary style and execution as well as notoriety and accomplishment as an artist. The focus of this piece is easily the paper-thin relationships that Chianski surrounds himself with. Every escapade leads to some revelation about his manhood, his fame, and his constant brush with the women that seem to constantly contrast with his one vice – a penchant for finding the most emotionally unstable women to have weekend relationships with, and being both unsatisfied with the sex and relationship, and surprised when the women cling to him with fervent desire. In Women, Bukowski has improved and expanded his literary dance with being both anti-pedantic in diction and syntax while at the same time being misleading in his ability to screw intensive literary symbolism and devices into this somewhat simple work. The result is scrupulous, tireless literary and linguistic acrobatics that lead across the wasteland of white-trash slums and heighten Chianski’s vices and sexual escapades to that of religious reverence. Definitely deserves its place on Esquire's list.

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