"And I thought, I might get used to it. I never got used to it." Genius.

The narrator is perfect.

@ALLCAPS

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah!? Check out the other narrations by Christian Baskous, I have a playlist titled "Bukowski," and it includes a fair amount of Baskous reading Bukowski.

@jadunbar88

3 жыл бұрын

Don't know about that cause there are many times when his dialogue doesn't line up to the way Bukowski used to read his own work. It's the tone of being defeated by others stupidity that is missing.

@mjharris420

2 жыл бұрын

@@jadunbar88 yeah but just listen to others that don't get his voice right at all. They are unbearable.

@OldHats

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely happy now

@thelazyhuman3182

9 ай бұрын

×wewww eww we

I just started at the post office, I read this years ago and this hits so different now. wow.

@vano758

Жыл бұрын

Hits so different. Exactly!!

@jean-paulmarat236

2 ай бұрын

I couldn't believe what I was holding in my hands, Catcher was my first, I thought I didn't like poetry, that I didn't have an ear for it And then I realized that I just didn't find good enough before. It was 2004., a particularly good year, that's when I met Remarque also

This narrator is fucking amazing. It's like listening to Chuck.

I listen to your Bukowski’s most nights. Thank you so much for putting this up. RIP MF Doom.

@officiallyspooked7805

Жыл бұрын

MF DOOM*

@Evv_McMuffin

Жыл бұрын

Youre right. mb

All caps is the real MVP

@saxongreen78

3 жыл бұрын

...you know it!

Just finished the ham on rye audio book, I cannot stress enough how well of a job this narrator does. I’m an hour in and he’s got me cracking up the way he reads some of this shit. ALL CAPS RULES. Rip Dumile.

@carsonwyatt8915

3 жыл бұрын

plus the surly tone and attitude of his voice is actually reminiscent of bukowski's own character.

@magnuskallas

2 жыл бұрын

Doing the same order just now. And yes, for once a great narrator and possibly better than Bukowski himself at reading the prose (having listened to Bukowski's recording sessions, he didn't give a damn about being too professional).

@Wiggles_vs._snuggles

2 жыл бұрын

The end of ham on rye was epic

@Pddy-je8pn

7 ай бұрын

When he says, "Chapter 23." He sounds perfectly defeated.

Christian Baskous narration. Nothing better. 👉👊👊. Thanks for sharing.

Just finished reading this today; my first Bukowski read and it was good!

@ALLCAPS

5 жыл бұрын

good selection! I'd save Pulp for last, but next you should either read Women, Ham on Rye, or Factotum. Save Hollywood for after Factotum.

Every year I identify more with old hank

@ALLCAPS

4 жыл бұрын

yes.

@rorywhite6272

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@Edgesofnowhere008

2 жыл бұрын

Real Ones Know

@Wiggles_vs._snuggles

2 жыл бұрын

Don't we all

The part of the guy who never allowed him to stick the mail in the mailbox is beautiful.

@ALLCAPS

4 жыл бұрын

one of my favorites! hahahaha that part was read so well too. "WAIT! WAaaaaait!" hahaha

@boadicea5856

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Deveini It's beautiful and hilarious Jack.😆

@davidleewrath6919

3 жыл бұрын

@@boadicea5856 I always wonder what happened to GG. He's dead, no doubt about it. But I wonder if he killed himself from all the shame he endured.

@cruiser6260

3 жыл бұрын

Lucky it's an audio book, or I would need to read that through tears.

@bowlingstoned2113

Ай бұрын

That's also interesting, Hank pretty much leaves it open to literally any guess. My guess was always that he fell ill 6 months later and passed.​@@davidleewrath6919

"Chapter 23". Damn, he sounds so defeated.

“It began as a mistake,”,,, when I read that when I first picked it up, I was sold.

@ALLCAPS

3 жыл бұрын

makes you think "WHAT was a mistake?" hahah yes I heard somebody share this same opinion in an interview or a documentary.

@mananshsharma9269

2 жыл бұрын

The documentary is Born Like This

GBU Charles Bukowski ❤

yessss same guy who did the ham on rye. perfect voice

@ALLCAPS

2 жыл бұрын

There's a whole collection of Christian's books on my channel. Please view the playlists and find the one titled Bukowski (: kzread.info/head/PLHxUe5bUoslv2DHRgmfWPxBb-SHtsrbbq

Thank you, ALL CAPS. This is excellent.

The work that started it all.

3:19:50 "her tongue darted in and out of my mouth like a tiny lost snake" 😂

Fantastic, thank you for uploading this

Great book and very well performed....many thanks.

The first picture kind of says it all. It's like he's aware of what's going on while everyone else is oblivious. (The perfect visual representation of a gifted and insightful writer.)

@ALLCAPS

4 жыл бұрын

Yes i picked these images wisely! Thank god for Bukowski.net

@cruiser6260

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Like when he gambles and wins because he's the only one who knows what's going on with the horses. He's the only one who knows how a pot bellied prematurely aged alcoholic can have beautiful women throw themselves at him like a rock star and beat up Bruce lee lol

thank you Charles

I'm only at the 2 hour mark but this is such a strange change of tone for ol' Hank after Ham on Rye, Women and Factotum. he's so mellow and lol not a complete and instable drunk.

@dearydarling

Жыл бұрын

@Херсон міщанина yeah i didn't mean HIS chronology i meant my own as in that's the order i read/listened in

Love the part when he throws the write ups in the trash 😂

"Forget the whole FUCKIN' thing..." 😂😂😂

Great novels, wish he had written more

Outstanding

Oh denggg a DOOM and Buk fan., subscribed!

Love this!!!

He was one hell.of a bar fighter

LOL!!! great reading..this guy rules

amazing narrative. thank you

personal bookmarks: 1:16:29 2:05:05

I didn’t call in sick because I was to tired to think clearly. As soon as I decided to quit, I felt much better.. Lol Remind me "kinda" of Jack Kerouac..sorta. Also had a crazy friend who wrote books (Xerox’s and hand made and stapled together. Kinda High School, but a fun romp, interesting, (didn’t put it down).

@carsonwyatt8915

3 жыл бұрын

Kerouac was restless like Bukowski, the biggest difference is when you read Kerouac, it feels like he's taking a vacation with the dregs, the cons, the miscreants.. Bukowski feels much more like he is one of them and the vacation is his writing. If that makes sense.

@Bill-xx2yh

3 жыл бұрын

@@carsonwyatt8915 I THINK THIS IS WELL SAID. I would add Kerouac and his love of philosophy, religion in general and particularly with Zen.

I spent my share of time at the track. Chinaski knows A LOT about the game.

Joyce got the dog, the house and the flies...Hank got the 1957 Plymouth - _Hank WON!_

Sounds just like him.

it made me go into tears at 4:30:29

Not bad narrator. Chinaski probably hasn't thrown any beer bottles from his grave. Work in San Pedro years ago, doing construction work in a school, work started at 7am. Anyway i used get there early like 5:45am so i could have breakfast at this joint that look stuck in time. I like that place because it had two hot waitresses, with good legs and beautiful buttocks, i like the way they wiggle their stuff when they brought my food and when they walk away, plus they smell like early spring, and that made all of me happy. I think by then i had read all of Chinaski's books, and i used to get a little nostalgic reminiscing on my life and how this old fool help cope with the shit i had going on back them. I got me writing dirty stories and poems, plus he might given a little push to beer bottles i used to drink from the grave. To make this short, I'm pretty sure he used hang there at musky restaurant, looking at those lean legs and firm buttocks. At end of each meal i walked the end street for s few minutes, and now and then a crackhead will appear from the alleys or some build, and just walk away into the distance, i drove a couple of times by his house but never when to the cemetery. Got to let the old man rest i said to myself

Happy I found this

Boss, just sound!!

as non-native speaker, for me it is fast a bit to listening, but guys in the comments seem to be highly satisfactory. :)

Got a copy of “tales of ordinary madness”?

Fuck yeah, DOOM!

#MFDOOMlives

Is this the entire book? The other one here is 7 hours long

@ALLCAPS

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Other channels like to add fluff and repeat the recordings. It's weird but I think they did it during an age copyright strikes were more prominent

@ALLCAPS

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/oGmClZKYgsyeebQ.html for example if you skip to 6 or 7 he ends on a weird part. I know that the book ends with "and I did", however

@DNJ9o9o

3 жыл бұрын

ALL CAPS ahh that’s why. Thank you!

1:03:38 Chapter 17

Is this book fiction or biography ?

@ALLCAPS

2 жыл бұрын

Many of his works are labeled as "autobiographical" by various sources; but Bukowski would usually write something like "This is presented as a work of fiction and dedicated to nobody" in his novels, and this one, in particular, had that written. So, no, it's most likely some truths but a lot of fiction too. It's almost idealistic, in some parts.

@chrisclinton743

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information ALL CAPS.

@from-Texas

Жыл бұрын

Its bukowskis life as he sees it

Ah. No subtitles... Damn

3:46:14

1:22:50

3:33:00

45:00

All Caps, what are your thoughts on Women? Just finished I recently for the first time and it was by far the most depressing of all the novels.

@ALLCAPS

3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts? It was the first introduction novel to Bukowski for me! I loved it. The most raw and honest thing I've read in a while. Read it during a breakup and it was just a great pick-me-up during hard times. I forgot what novel I read next, but I do know Women was the perfect novel to read at first.

@galenpemberton4382

3 жыл бұрын

@@ALLCAPS Huh, interesting prospective. For me it was the last of his novels I read (only just finished it last week), whereas I've read the others more than 10 times. It felt distinct from all of those though so maybe I'll come to a different conclusion after another read through.

13:25

Would you be able to upload other stuff read by Christian?

@ALLCAPS

6 жыл бұрын

Jurgen Solstheim I basically only covered the Bukowski stuff that he read. I don't have access to anything else. Maybe in the future I can.

@davidleewrath6919

6 жыл бұрын

ALL CAPS Cool. I should check out some soundbytes from his audiobooks to see if he uses his Bukowski voice.

@lobsterwhisperer7932

6 жыл бұрын

I could hear him read anything.

@winniehall5569

4 жыл бұрын

My, I don't remember how I came across this guy but I fear he has exposed me to a world that one of my son lives. I hope to understand him better.He is a kind heart, but the world around him is not that. Well we all know that but some of us go about as we know something and others are just mad. Everyone is a little crazy and looking deeper, I relate well with this man even though from a different time and culture. I smell every scene that he describes like I am there with Him just observing. He takes the reader to the reality of life behind eloquence, suits and ties, tidy organised looking environments, that man you see in church, that woman that educates ones child that person you meet in the street and bring home and make a partner out of them, he changes the way I see the post man even though this is fiction. I am glad I started with Rye and Ham as this introduced me to the man himself. I will read on, to find out whether he thought his mother did him a favour to see him off his home with a $10 note (Ham and Rye) Heaven must be fun to receive this man as earth must have been getting small for His big mind as writer and a human just wanting to be left to be himself but never seemed to have chance to.

1:59:24

4:02:22

1:10:12 🤣

100

Pea soup

Why do all the boss types have southern accents?

@davidleewrath6919

3 жыл бұрын

You should ask Christian Baskous about that.

So is he admitting to rape in this?

Why does he keep pronouncing 'clerk' as 'clark' and 'route' as 'root'? Anybody would think he was English.

@davidleewrath6919

3 жыл бұрын

He pronounces clerk just like this en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/clerk#English. Route can be pronounced both ways in the US. I think he uses raut when he talks about rerouting.

What an amazing degenerate he was. Me and him are the same. I like knowing there was someone like myself

@chnnlsrfr3873

2 жыл бұрын

There's a little bit of Hank in everyone baybee, and keepin' in will rot you from the inside out

@LRGDuran

Күн бұрын

Its called our shadow.

Why in the fuck do you keep erasing my comments?

@ALLCAPS

3 жыл бұрын

I dont touch comments. I believe in the first amendment so I have no reason to erace anything. If theyre deemed offensive for children or youtube then YT must remove them. Sorry mate.

@hankworden3850

3 жыл бұрын

@@ALLCAPS those nazi bastards! It was just a quote from the story!

@ALLCAPS

3 жыл бұрын

It tells me you commneted 8 times but only 3 are available to view meaning 5 of your comments may have been black listed or something. But you will never see me delete comments. Goodluck.

@ALLCAPS

3 жыл бұрын

@@hankworden3850 yeah and Youtuelbe is run by a liberal nutcase who will remove anything remotely "offensive". Research the YT algorithm.

Fantastic narration.