Bukowski!!! Camus!!!

[phobophile]

If you have not read any Bukowski, do. It will make you understand more things than your conscience wants you to. If you are ready to move up past Bukowski, i suggest reading Albert Camus. Camus is difficult to read for early teens so this is probably for persons in the late teens. His observations on the human conscience and human nature are unthinkable almost. He is a nobel prize winner. I know how un-popular it is to read worldy renound authors that have been dead for years but if you do, it will pay off as far as your thought process goes. Camus writes a one person dialogue in his short novel, "The Fall." From just one person talking, the reader becomes aware of this characters faults and eventually his "fall." Happens to be one of the best studies of the human conscience.

[Starry]

I don't know anything about Bukowski, but we're reading Les Justes by Camus in school right now. It's basically about the philosophies and ideology of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in tsarist Russia, and it's based on a true story. It's actually really good (if you speak French, at least--it's one of those things that's not nearly as good translated).

[phobophile]

you should read some bukowski. start with his novel entitled the most beautiful woman in town. Some meaning is always lost through translation. With exception. Nabokov wrote in russian but translated his works with his son personally as to retain every meaning he could. what kind of stuff do you write. I hope its not fantasy or childrens books.

[ElephntFalingOffClif]

I'v never head of Bukowski. I have heard of Camus but never read anything by him. I write what ever I feel like writing, which at the moment is not much. I'm too busy with school and after school activities.