Ham On Rye (13)

Ham On Rye
Charles Bukowski
read 5/10/08

My second Bukowski novel, and I am hooked, unfortunately he only wrote 6 novels, so I am 1/3 of the way through them. This is about his childhood growing up in LA during the depressions. Parts of it seem tragic, parts seem unbelievable. But mostly I think it just shows the passage of time. I don't think there is anything unique to his story, I just think that it was a lot different during the depression. He talks about everybody being angry.. he talks about his own lack of ambition and generaly hopelessness. In the other book I remarked on how detached he seemd from his own life, I think this book does a lot to explain why he felt this way. Perhaps my favorite line of the book is: "Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk."