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    Free on Youtube, read by a genius (Christian Baskous) who provides a multitude of voices that make this particular audiobook a marvelous experience.

    I do not know if he sounds like Bukowski, but the voice is perfect nonetheless.

    Hank's mother, who has a German accent and is married to an awful man, sounds perfect.

    Voices of people long gone. CB well over the century mark and his parents were from the 19th century I presume. Every peer gone too (although, I have spoken to a man who reached well beyond one hundred years).

    However: At one point, very close to Dec. 7, 1941, when everyone is gone to war almost, Hank plays an arcade game with a 9 year old Hispanic kid. I wonder at the possibility that he abides, 90 plus years old and possibly knows of his mention in this 40 year old book. If the story is accurate.

    One character, an aspiring writer whom Hank admired, perished in WW2 without, afaik, being published.

    Our lives are often sad and always very finite.

    Let us discuss this audiobook! Let us salute Charles Bukowski!

    by relesabe

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