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Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (Paperback)

by Charles Bukowski (Author), Robert Crumb (Illustrator)
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  • Paperback: 152 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Ecco; 1st Ecco Ed edition (24 April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1574230581
  • ISBN-13: 978-1574230581
  • Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 14.9 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 256,627 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating our own lives and natures, and to give new meaning to what was once only familiar. Crumb has illustrated the text with 12 full-page drawings and a portrait of Bukowski.

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Raw, iconoclastic, by turns rueful and hilarious, these last journals by Charles Bukowski have found their perfect match: the brilliant, outrageous comic art of Robert Crumb, who's provided a portrait of the author plus striking full-page drawings illustrating select passages from the text.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very pleasant read, 22 Dec 1998
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Here, the old dragon has lost alot of his fire, but he still writes very pleasingly. I'm 45, and I can relate to the diminished feeling of these stories. I always read Bukowski for the black humor, and there's some funny stuff here. There's one bit about a guy at the racetrack who Bukowski calls "The Screamer", that's a real howler. And the R. Crumb illustration accompanying this anecdote complements it perfectly. All the illustrations are good. This a good, worthwhile book for Bukowsi fans.
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5.0 out of 5 stars bukowski gave up, 29 Oct 1998
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This book is ,no doubt, an important piece of the whole picture bukowski. But the old rebell, the barfly cannot be found in bukowskis last work. Take the computer and the pool for an example, what has this to do with the bukowski who wrote those action packed stories? He lost the control over his life, the control that was sometimes the only thing he had. This is a book to show the end of a great author, but not a book that stands for bukowskis work.
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3.0 out of 5 stars How Close Is Bukowski to Being Canonized?, 8 Jul 1998
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This collection of journal entries could appear to be getting at the heart of this author's eminently true-to-life writing, seeing as how his works are so autobiographical. But as he says in the book, "Pain doesn't make writing, a writer does." That is, Bukowski's arduous work as a writer created the dozens of titles under his name, not some unfiltered suffering and inspiration we may hope to find by digging through his sock drawer to find his diary. Judging from the tendancies of 20th century fame, I suppose the issuing of his journals should come as no surprise; it's only a matter of time until we want to know everything about our heroes. But when fame's momentum starts flying off the handle, when the surname of the artist can weigh enough to publish just about anything he or she has done, it is high time to assess where on the shelf Bukowski's books are placed. Are they alongside volumes of criticism/laudation and reprints with academic forewords and afterwords? Or will we grant his wish stated in his journal entry: "I'm just a block unto myself. I want to stay within that block, unmolested." It seems our inclination is to include him in the literary canon, but it is evident that Bukowski wishes otherwise, ironically so in these posthumously published journals. Consider: "When [the writer] is swayed by the critics, the editors, the publishers, the readers, then he's finished. And, of course, when he's swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds." Where in this turd metaphor is us, his audience, who appears to be swayed by all of the above?
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4.0 out of 5 stars farewell hank
i have read everything bukowski has ever written and this is not bukowski. sure, it has the same name on the cover and on the spine, but charles bukowski who raged so hard to do... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2004 by marty mcfly

4.0 out of 5 stars Notes of an Old Man
Written 3 years before his death in Mach 94, concurrently with "Pulp", his last work of fiction, this journal seems like one of the old mans most honest books. Read more
Published on 22 May 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars another great book from Buk & Black Sparrow
I await new Bukowski books--and there seems to be no end of material from the John Martin vaults--with a special fervor, probably because he's just about ruined all other writers... Read more
Published on 1 Jun 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a treat and an inspiration
Okay, Buk's been gone what, four years? Five? This has got to be at least his fourth new book since he shuffled off this mortal coil. Kinda spooky, eh? Read more
Published on 1 May 1998

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