I like listening to it on .75x, it sounds like he’s drunk.

@outofbox000

3 жыл бұрын

Oh I like it thanks

@LandoShmetzP.

3 жыл бұрын

You are a god damn genius. #MFDOOMlives btw...

@LandoShmetzP.

3 жыл бұрын

I will no longer be listening at normal speed.

@Mattypantaloons

3 жыл бұрын

1.00 is way too fast, .75x is perfect, thanks.

@richardgoss4777

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah much better, thank you.

Christian Baskous hits the nail on the head every time he narrates Bukowski, brings the story and the characters to life. It's proper interpretation, not just regurgitation of the words. Some of the accents are brilliant, make me laugh out loud.

Just glad there's still people out there with a taste for rawness.

@overlex

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Cameron . Same

@celestinij

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck yes. Give it to me RAW and WRIGGLING

@sanahaj500

4 жыл бұрын

Yey

@u.sonomabeach6528

3 жыл бұрын

I lub me some raw doggy dog. Dig it? All in, even sack

@knowid9559

3 жыл бұрын

That is not the point

My eyes were red, my shoes were blue and nobody liked me. But I still had things to do.

@dennismason3740

3 жыл бұрын

Nice. I met Linda in 1980. We drank wine and talked. "I've got to get back to Pedro" she said. I said goodbye and I wondered "who the heck is Charles Bukowski besides being the writer of Dirty Notes in the Free paper?" and I had never read his column. The next day I went to the library and checked out "Women" and I laughed and I laughed and I laughed.

@baronsaturday9529

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha.... Yeah, he's one o/t greats!

❤️‍🔥 “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way.” ❤️‍🔥 ― Charles Bukowski 😎

@ALLCAPS

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite

@emojiking8580

2 жыл бұрын

🤓🤚 👋🥃

@gmac9133

2 жыл бұрын

🍸

@blackbird5634

Жыл бұрын

"Sometimes I bend over to tie my shoe and when I stand up the day is over.'' -William Burroughs.

@poem

Жыл бұрын

@@blackbird5634 👏

Extremely underrated Bukowski book. My favorite.

Thank you Mr. Reader.This would not be the same experience without you. And I wish happiness upon you. If you are a good person. 😉

1:11:13 great 10 seconds 1:30:03 incredible chapter 1:42:44 waiting 1:46:20 more waiting and musings 1:51:02 one of my favorite lines 1:58:00 another great scene 3:05:39 rant

@DaveSCameron

Жыл бұрын

thanks 👍

Being more familiar with Factotum, Ham On Rye, and Post Office, I didn't know what to expect as I hadn't read a review of Pulp. For quite a while I wasn't really getting into it but I kept listening. On Chapter 30 now and this is amazing, great unexpected humour and a mad storyline. Absolutely brilliant. Started reading Bukowski bit by bit about 10 years ago; it was like reading some kind of bible for wayward thinkers and the first time that I thought this guy thinks a bit like me.... Although this man is a genius.

"...less than a fart in an empty church." When I need to laugh I listen to Christian Baskous reading Bukowski, works every time.

@jiggersotoole7823

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

I wish there was an old school noir film about this :(

@arielbonzai462

4 ай бұрын

The one with Matt Dillon would work better if he wasn’t so good looking. No reason you can’t make a noir version.

I have been reading and listening to all of his novels during a long recovery from COVID-19. Pulp is very different from his other novels but none the less totally blew me away. Thank you so much for posting this ALL CAPS. 🙏

@ALLCAPS

2 жыл бұрын

Get well! Health is all we have

@bealitha

2 жыл бұрын

@@ALLCAPS Thank you for your good wishes x

@ALLCAPS

2 жыл бұрын

I remember reading Women and Ham on Rye when being destroyed by exams and 12 hr days in college. Those were good times. I picked up Ask the Dust too, by John Fante and loved it so much I ended up reading it to this 20yo brunnette. Lets just say some of the lovely parts of the novel made her blush. Those were good times, those college days, but nevertheless all good things have to come to an end. I ended up reading that novel 3 more times. It was actually everything Buk hyped it up to be.

@ezerbassradio

2 жыл бұрын

What's your favorite? Mine is Ham on Rye

Nobody had the right to be as cool as Bukowski was.

Bukowski didn't just "spoof" Mickey Spillane, he wrote the book every person who ever cracked open a second-hand Philip K. Dick paperback was hoping to read. And in one-third the time. Great narration by the ghost of Chuck, "Christian Baskous".

@DaveSCameron

Жыл бұрын

this is great comment 👍

I listen to this every once in a while. Each time it's better than before.

Finally an English version on KZread..thank you dude

@ALLCAPS

6 жыл бұрын

No problem! :D I also had that frustration-- so I did something about it.

The only book I ever red more than 3 times and still laugh

This guy has a great voice, especially for this book.

This story saves my life 2, 3 times a year.

Ive been waiting for this upload for so long!!!!!! Thank you!

@dylanjohnson3114

3 жыл бұрын

0glfOf119H0 was

6:12 - One of the best lines ever written.

@ALLCAPS

6 жыл бұрын

I love his RED impression! hahahaha "HEY, why don't you get the hell out of here!?"

@weedywendy4266

3 жыл бұрын

“workin’ in the other direction” is pretty ok, as well

@Juan_Hernandez_Jr.

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha........

Your reading is impeccable. I bet this took you weeks and weeks to do it justice.

"It was like a fat sack of dead shit" Hahahaha

Thanks for uploading this audiobook

@ALLCAPS

6 жыл бұрын

Anytime!

"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them..."

Oh fuck it, I'll just pour another beer and listen to this masterpiece instead of Black Sabbath. Better than phoning a girl telling her you feel lonely this evening.

Thank you!👍

A lovely surreal detective story.

Spat, spat, spat, spatter, spat, spat spat, spat. - Bukowski

@jgrullon32

2 жыл бұрын

Bim bim bim- Charles bukowski

Reading This Book in French. Bukowsky is a big big Writer.

I have been arguing with idiots on KZread who think Bukowski is a lousy writer.....they say he is not in the same league as Keruac or Hunter Thompson. I think he is every bit as good and his knack for poetry puts him above them......

@hankworden3850

3 жыл бұрын

Is Kerouac even good? 🤷‍♂️

@bmphil3400

3 жыл бұрын

@@hankworden3850 I read "On the Road" and "Dharma Bums". They are pretty good but they are more like diaries or chronicals of events than stylistic writing. The chain of events are more interesting than the writing style. Think about the movie " Into the wild". That is very very close to the kinds of things Kerouac got into. Wandering all over and meeting all kinds of people.

@julesfalcone

3 жыл бұрын

@@hankworden3850 No. They are not in Bukowski's league.

@dullknifefactory

2 жыл бұрын

@@julesfalcone buk is not better than HST

@julesfalcone

2 жыл бұрын

@@dullknifefactory He's not better at doing psychedelics. Hunter S. Thompson sucks.

Perfect narration.

Thanks for uploading

I Loved reading his books thanks for your effort.

It’s interesting how a man could be so coarse, so filthy, yet so beautiful.

@cesarbustos2349

2 жыл бұрын

That’s cool

@jmpsthrufyre

2 жыл бұрын

Honest to a fault?

@annalisavajda252

Жыл бұрын

Well I think he was disgusted with the world too but just had a way of trying to adapt to it and accept it because what else would he do but commit suicide and maybe he was intentionally trying to shorten his life with the heavy drinking rather than shoot himself like Hemingway. No doubt he was depressed imo.

Baskous is a brilliant narrator for Bukowski and with his faster pace he just might be more fitting for this book.

Super genius Hank.

great stuff , loved the way it was narrated

Christian Baskous channels Bukowski. An amazing job of reading...

Thanks for this

I can't quit laughing.. Omfng.. this is great

This narrator is incredible. He does a Bukowski voice as if Bukowski were sober.

@SusanMcNamara-er3jy

8 ай бұрын

q

Wonderfully read.

Sounds like Norm Macdonald.

Good one

So refreshing

I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born 🤣💀 holy fuck

Went from Post office to Hollywood to this third.

@ALLCAPS

5 жыл бұрын

New Age Horror You should do this one last, I suggest. (x For me it was Women, Ham On Rye, Post Office, Factotum, Hollywood, Pulp, and South of no North.

@northover

4 жыл бұрын

Ham on Rye", the first in the series of his life, imo, is the best...at least the one read by Christian Baskous on audible.com

My 15 cat's love the sound of Uncle Charlie's voice 😺 🐝 🍻 ✌️ 💕

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard and so many times throughout an audiobook! Or ANY Story for that matter! I’ve read HP Lovecraft, De Maupassant, Stephen King and Dostoyevsky... but Charles Bukowski is my new favourite! Next to GRRM

@ALLCAPS

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah! and Christian Baskous really does the narration justice!

@overlex

3 жыл бұрын

1 year later, and I’m back for another listen! Bukowski is immortal 🔥

@overlex

Жыл бұрын

Back here 😁

@Jose-oq6kj

7 ай бұрын

Come back again! @@overlex

This might be even funnier than the naked lunch audio book. Wonderful. Ch 14 writer's lives Ch 26 xmas Ch 39 animals Ch 40 senselessness I'm listening to this again. It's just hilarious. Thanks for the upload.

this is strange, the man who reads often sounds exactly like bukowski

@DPRS6

5 жыл бұрын

christian baskous is great at reading bukowski.

@jacksypher3403

5 жыл бұрын

Put the speed to .75% he sounds even more like him

@jimmiemcgarry343

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacksypher3403 .5

@jacksypher3403

5 жыл бұрын

@@jimmiemcgarry343 even more so lol

@stimso

5 жыл бұрын

Hardly. Not bad read but not like Bukowski at all in my opinion.

This was wonderful.

@knowid9559

3 жыл бұрын

You don't know Hank

@dumyjobby

3 жыл бұрын

@@knowid9559 no i don't know Hank

Thank you!

@ALLCAPS

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! :D

Brings back memories of….❤❤😂😊great!

I'm living a solo life. Deep end drugs, too. This was interesting.

@batsky6061

3 жыл бұрын

What’s it like?

@baronsaturday9529

2 жыл бұрын

I too am a genteel bum of satisfied poverty. Lonely, poor, stoned, and happy.... :)

WAIT THANK YOU SO MUCH I NEEDED THIS FOR A PROJECT I LOVE YOU

@ALLCAPS

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! (:

Great, San Pedro was perfect for him. It still is. His old hangouts on 6th st. Pacific ave has not changed much since he died. It’s a pretty cool place.

The guy's voice reminds me of Bukowski.

Hilarious! 😂 🤣 💀 🥩 🥃 🧊 brilliant parody and skillful writing. Narrator and recording and sound engineering also phenomenal! I doubt 💯 I doubt I’d have been as entertained if I had only read the work.

I feel crazy!

47:00 BEST SCENE

This is fun❤

*Hahahaha.... This is great!*

Top drawer writing. No comparison to anything else....

@julesfalcone

3 жыл бұрын

@Jeff Baker Charles, what do you think of Mamet?

a glorious dizzyness of flesh

Amazing Mickey Spillane spoof

Thank fuck for Bukowski. 2021.

Sounds like stories from my twenties

Enjoyable.

1:10:04 did anyone else forget that was a dream and say what the F… When the bartender started eating the pigeon. Oh my gosh, what words don’t you just love? The pictures painted your head as you listen.

We were vegetables, I was one of those, I don't know what kind of vegetable I was, I felt like a turnip. I lit a cigar, inhaled, and pretended that I knew what the hell.

My favorite author. Period.

@julesfalcone

3 жыл бұрын

This comment should have more likes after 4 months.

“My eyes were blue, my shoes were old, and nobody loved me.”

I need to listen to this at .75x, because I'm drunk.

The end has nearly brought me to tears

@ALLCAPS

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah..... it was hard to listen too.

@ALLCAPS

4 жыл бұрын

Do a quick search for the symbolism of the ending and the color yellow! You'll find it to be quite sad; especially having to be the last novel Buk wrote knowing about his leukemia.

@pleasequietdown8946

4 жыл бұрын

@@ALLCAPS the whole thing was just so entertaining, and i didnt realize till the end that i had gotten attached to the main character. and i didn't know it was his last book. i'll have to do some reading, and listen again

@Puppy_Puppington

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. :(

as a reformed sober boy i never sleep on my back knowing that both Jimi Hendrix and Bon Scott died from whatever and Alcohol whilst lying on their back.

"I watched two flies fucking" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@heyitMeMcFlyunfortunately

3 жыл бұрын

not as fun as it sounds unfortunately

I was two miles away when the above photo was taken at the patio at 3rd and Fairfax.

@ALLCAPS

Жыл бұрын

that's awesome!!

@dennismason3740

Жыл бұрын

@@ALLCAPS - If I had only known...I would have been there.

@dennismason3740

6 ай бұрын

@@ALLCAPS - yes it is. I could have been there in 15 minutes on my bicycle. It's his spirit that's awesome and you don't need proximity to engage Buke's spirit. I drank wine with Linda Lee (his wife) one night in West Hollywood in 1980. I was kicked out of the library the next day when I couldn't stop laughing at her husband's writing (my first Bukowski read). I got sober in 1982, 41 years now.

@dennismason3740

6 ай бұрын

Yup. 15 minutes on bicycle. There was (is?) a cafeteria there that would offer a huge plate of good hot food for $1.50.

I love you Hank

Christian Baskous is a fucking great voice actor.

@ALLCAPS

6 жыл бұрын

Yes I did! I remember wanting to listen to this audio-book. Being broke. Not able to purchase a membership with Audible made me miserable. I hated my inner reader's voice, and reading aloud wasn't interesting to me either. The narration of Christian Baskous always fascinated me. After realizing, there're no posts for Pulp, I made it my mission to find a copy. Here we are.

@ALLCAPS

6 жыл бұрын

If this channel, for whatever reason, gets deleted. I need you to know: these audiobooks and recordings will be re-uploaded. I will try and name my new KZread account the same, use the same image and keep the legacy going. It's my duty to share Buk's work. I'm non-profit, and don't care about money. I just want people to enjoy his work. Let's have a drink.

@davidleewrath6919

6 жыл бұрын

ALL CAPS His swan song and his first book I ever bought. I had enjoyed Buk previously but this book was mine and only mine. It also got me hooked on film noir. The Arkansas bit had me in tears when I read it and every time I remember it I laugh like the very first time.

@julesfalcone

3 жыл бұрын

@@ALLCAPS You're the real deal.

@ALLCAPS

3 жыл бұрын

@@julesfalcone Thank you, Jules, I really appreciate the feedback! :D

This should be a Cohen Brothers movie.

@ALL CAPS - MISTERwoops Christian Baskous you are an effin' genius. I could not do any interpretation of Buke that was not an imitation of yours. You do him better than he does, maybe it's just the technology. Shure SM-58. I got drunk with Linda Lee one night in 1980. She's alright.

Wow, that ending... the whole thing. Fuck man... life changing. What an ending.

Her name was Trachea LMAO

I like the profile picture and the content

That "why you fat fuck"as belane explained why he pulled away from Nitro made me fucking howl. Fucking brilliant 🤣🤣

This is great!

Oh my god this is so funny

🥃Hank is King🍺🍷🚬

Thank you MF DOOM very nice

The book with the funniest threats..

@julesfalcone

3 жыл бұрын

Ayoub: and the most kicks to the nuts.

Lady; zip up Charles: how did u know

I need to hear Hanks voice .

Sounds a little like Norm McDonald.

@knowid9559

3 жыл бұрын

Does Old Man and the Sea seem like a good Disney movie to you also?

@knowid9559

3 жыл бұрын

Is your idea of classical music Celine Dion?

@knowid9559

3 жыл бұрын

HANK is beyond you and me. Please shut your mouth or fill it with shit

@kylevanderheyden1128

3 жыл бұрын

That ol chunk of coal himself!

His last book Reads like it as well

@lolsup9817

4 жыл бұрын

He has lukemia, must have been pretty brutal trying to write while your body is in agony

@spacealienjesus709

4 жыл бұрын

@DrT 2000 I try

@spacealienjesus709

4 жыл бұрын

@@lolsup9817 Most of his writings come from struggle..

@lolsup9817

4 жыл бұрын

Space Alien Jesus what are u talking about? I’m not talking about what the writing comes from, I’m saying it must have been hard for him to write because he was dying the whole time

@spacealienjesus709

4 жыл бұрын

@@lolsup9817 I took it the wrong way and for that I apologize..but I was not being mean

Busses constipate me too

1:50:54 chapter 27

Tony Clifton's cool uncle from the west coast.

👏👍👌✔️💯