the_horrors 's review for:

Love Is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski

2.5

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I read a lot of poetry so I came into this with high expectations since a friend recommended him to me in high regards. Sorry to say, I was disappointed, you can only read so many of the poems about sex, masturbation, and vulgarity before you get bored and lose interest (which I did frequently). I did enjoy a grand total of 3 poems: The Crunch, The Escape, and I’ve Seen Too Many Glazed-Eyed Bums Sitting Under a Bridge Drinking Cheap Wine. He is a good writer but next time I’ll just be reading select poems instead of whole work because that felt like a waste of time and I could care less to about 337 pages of a man being raw with his life, you can get that experience anywhere because old white men never shut hell up.