Charles Bukowski, a legend. Before finding success as a writer, Bukowski was a step above being homeless for like 20 years. He was a 'vagrant', 'bum', 'lowlife' etc. His works were about this. Bukowski, along with 'hard boiled' detective novels are the basis of Tom Waits' lyrical style. Bukowski doesn'r have the best prose, his characters aren't particularly likable and i doubt you'd be sympathetic to them in real life but there's something so human in Henry Chianski's(fictionalized version of 'him') and his constant failures and disappointments that can 'touch us all'. You follow Henry as he goes from menial, repetitive job to job, the questionable women, booze. He truly is the 'novel laureate of the America Lowlife'(Source: Wikipedia)
He's a 10.0 without a doubt.
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