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A review by timeas_life
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
1.0
I have a lot to say about this book and none of it is good.
To start off, nothing actually happens in it. There’s no real plot or climax, it just putters along. But the worst part of this book is every single character in it. The main character has to be the most unlikeable character of all time. He is an alcoholic, sexist, racist, gambler...oh I won’t skip over the fact that he is a literal rapist, like the book it. And I don’t mean some blurred consent read between the lines kind of rape but he straight textual rape and he’s not vilified for it. Everyone single woman in his life is only referred to by their ass, it’s flat out disgusting. Not to mention this guy would have been fired 10 times over with the behaviour and work ethic.
Also every supporting character is there to aid his sob story or his sex life.
I read another of Bukowskis works and I don’t remember it being this bad. I hope this awful work is an outlier, as he’s considered a great author, because it disturbs me to think that so many people love books about abusive, misogynistic men with nothing interesting to say.
To start off, nothing actually happens in it. There’s no real plot or climax, it just putters along. But the worst part of this book is every single character in it. The main character has to be the most unlikeable character of all time. He is an alcoholic, sexist, racist, gambler...oh I won’t skip over the fact that he is a literal rapist, like the book it. And I don’t mean some blurred consent read between the lines kind of rape but he straight textual rape and he’s not vilified for it. Everyone single woman in his life is only referred to by their ass, it’s flat out disgusting. Not to mention this guy would have been fired 10 times over with the behaviour and work ethic.
Also every supporting character is there to aid his sob story or his sex life.
I read another of Bukowskis works and I don’t remember it being this bad. I hope this awful work is an outlier, as he’s considered a great author, because it disturbs me to think that so many people love books about abusive, misogynistic men with nothing interesting to say.