Just finished this, good book I really enjoyed it, the first 100/150 pages were just so so, plodding along, nothing really happening, it is 50% flashbacks but to be honest not a lot happens in either of the timelines, once you hit the half way mark though the fact that nothing is really happening seemed to stop bothering me and I was just enjoying the book.

I reckon this is one of them books that I won't realize how much I enjoyed it until I think back on it in a few months time.

I've got 3 other books to get started on, I can only remember the one of them, I haven't got a clue what the other 2 are and I can't even remember ordering one of them (probably another drunk purchase, I've made a few of them in the past and they normally end up being pretty good)

anyways I suppose I'll start on this one next



It began as a mistake. By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel--the one that catapulted its author to national fame--is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.
I'm hoping this is going to be nice and easy because I have got my eye on 3 or 4 books that are going to be pretty fucking tough going I think, I'm going to enjoy the simple reads for the minute