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Love Is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski

1.0

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I don’t understand people’s infatuation with him. I genuinely gave him a chance and ended up disliking him even more. Maybe because I can’t stand his derogatory attitude towards women. Most of his poetry appears to be about falling for prostitutes or “whores” as he calls them, being drunk and wallowing in the misery that he created for himself (regardless of his childhood and the economy in the 70s). I was told I just don’t “get it” and I’m sure there’s aspects of it that I don’t get but in my defence its hard to see beneath the self-victimization and ignorance, particularly as a poetic “masterpiece”.