Ham On Rye short review

Reading Charles Bukowski's Ham On Rye this weekend 'coz I was too broke to go to Rublecon, a local comic show in the neighboring Queen City. If you've seen Barfly starring Mickey Rourke (Sin City, Iron Man 2) and Factotum with Matt Dillon (kin to Flash Gordon creator Alex Raymond, don'cha know), you've experienced a little bit of Buk's work. Ham On Rye is another book featuring his hard-drinking, more-than-semi-autobiographical alter ego Henry Chinaski, who like Bukowski, was born in Germany and raised in America before most of yer parents were a twinkle in your granpappies' eyes. No, no. It's not sci-fi or fantasy, and the only zombies herein are lushes, but if you are a fan of straight-up solid writing and storytelling, give it a look-see. Bukowski has been influential on a whole bunch of artists, musicians, and storytellers. Ham On Rye will show you why. Heh! I made a rhyme.

Great with coffee. Not for kiddies: plenty of words best reserved for traffic and ex-wives, and lotta drinking and fighting. No pics inside.

Bukowski is da bomb. Awesome rec!

@ms-lola: Tank youse!

Thought is was about food. I am disapoint.

@bsaa: I'll fries you up a piece o' ham, slap an eggie and some spinach leaves on top, giver a squirt o' Tabasco, serving it all up between two nice, marbled slices of rye. Or do you like horseradish better 'n Tabasco?

Ah I love Bukowski, and good on you for reviewing something a little different ^_^

@bumpyboo: Tank youse, too!

@neghead: spinach? And after having my nostrils raped by horseradish called Nasal Napalm, I'd rather not have anymore.

Ham on what? o_O

@knightsofdarkness2: Rye? As in rye bread?

@squares: I was joking. I know what rye is.

@knightsofdarkness2: Weird joke.

@squares: It would be more easily identifiable as a joke if we saw him smiling wryly... or rye-ly.

@squares: That's why it's a joke! ( Since most jokes tend to be weird).

@knightsofdarkness2: Aw, let it go. @squares has a great since of humor; she just thinks you're being a ham. A ham on what, you ask? That, I dunno.

@neghead: Was that a Frozen joke mixed with a ham joke? O_o

That was genius.

@knightsofdarkness2: "Genius"! I'm a-gonna go buy me a lab coat! I just know if I put my mind to it I can bring Scrappy and Petey back from the dead!

@neghead: That comeback was GENIUS,GENIUS, GENIUS!!! You sir, have earned yourself a medal........ for being a genius.

@knightsofdarkness2: Yessssssss! I'd like to thank the academy, Mom, Dad, Harvey for being the best agent ever, and of course, Cthulhu. We did it, dark master!

Wow, this is the first time someone's had this much faith in my sense of humor. I'm almost...touched.

@squares: I hope this isn't taking the joke too far, but don't let it go to your bread? Ugh. I'm sorry. I'll behave now.