Hostage

Artist: Charles Bukowski
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 081227175825
EAN: 0081227175825
ASIN: B0000033CJ

Release Date: 1994-06-07

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Hostage

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Customer Reviews:

Amusing at times, but disappointing on the whole.......2006-05-23

After about a half an hour of Bukowski sparring with the audience and getting drunk (admittedly amusing at times, his cynical wit getting more and more depraved as the so-called "reading" goes on), I found myself wishing I had purchased some other spoken record by him.

He makes it clear that he's just making money, just wants to pass the time, that he doesn't think much of the crowd. I love it. But it's not poetry.

He only reads about 10 poems during the entirety of the hour. It seems like he wants to offend the audience, get kicked out, and go finish his booze; his poems were not on his mind that night. Not much was at all, in fact. I love hearing this guy read normally but this is just a marketing ploy and a waste of money. The material he recorded in the 70's is far better, before he became "the working man;s hero poet" officially. This is more like a recording of Lenny Bruce than poetry. Still, it is worth listening to just to get a sense of how charismatic Bukowski was and how he could get away with just about anything.

Try "Poems and Insults" instead.......2005-07-18

This has some great moments but the poems are weaker than "P&I" and the "rejoinders" with the audience keep derailing things. Maybe you had to be there. Interesting but not essential.

Hostage will make you laugh out loud in an empty room........2004-05-09

This CD is one of a kind. You won't find a better Bukowski CD if not a better CD in general. Bukowski has a relationship with the listeners like no other. He yells at members in the crowd and laughs with others. Bukowski goes from drunk to drunker as the CD goes on which adds to the hilarity of it all. This is an absolute MUST for your bukowski collection.

Very f-ing funny.......2003-04-10

Hostage is a hilarious recording of a Bukowski poetry reading that is a treasure to those of us too young to have heard him in person, especially during his heyday. Bukowski gives this reading at the optimum level of intoxication - audibly drunk but still quite lucid. If you have read and enjoyed his books, then this recording is a treat.

The version from audible.com comes in 8 tracks, clearly preferable to a CD with one hour long track.

bukowski at his drunken best.......2002-04-20

i've had this reading for several years now,and i still love it.i enjoy listening to it on the long drive to new york every month.
the first time i listened i thought,"is this really what hank sounds like?" his voice is a bit like a dirty old man's at times but ,thats what he was.the poetry runs the spectrum from beautiful to perverse as always.if you have more than 2 of his books,pick this up.you'll like it.

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