
Ham on Rye
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Christian Baskous
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By:
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Charles Bukowski
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years, and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.
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The remainder of the book feels like the reader is looking at the world through the eyes of a psychopath or a sociopath. He picks fights and his moodiness is terrifying. The life he betrays is a lonely and frightening one where social norms do not apply.
Beautiful quotes line the dark narrative, and those silver linings make it all the more disturbing.
Disturbing and dark, laced with brilliant quotes
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Inspirational to the tortured soul
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Classic Bukowski
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Difficult on the ears.
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The narrator has no soul
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Listening to the narrators monotone drawl you realize it fits perfectly with the writing. You won't find anything like it written recently.
Not PC
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Exciting story and performance
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blunt, fun and mean
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funny
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loved it
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