The Most Beautiful Girl in Town by Charles Bukowski

Mostly I liked this book. The short stories gave it a good time span to really enjoy it.
I didnt like the stories in the race track. Because essentially it’s just describing what one must do while at the race track. Not entertaining.

But the stories about the sex and the scenarios he describes so as if he’s there and that he witnessed them? So good. That is one of my favorite things about him. His ability to create mystery in his writing. Mystery about whether or not some vestige of these stories are actually his.

I also have to give him major major credit for writing the story about the child molestation. It’s so sick and twisted but such a great fucking story! No one ever has balls to write about—…let alone describe in perfect detail about molesting a child.

Thats what bothers me the most. Why do people get so weirded out when we talk about bad things happening to children? They’re in this world too. They dont trancend the reality that is ‘life.’ Yes it’s tragic when it happens because they’re not educated enought to know whats going on and why it’s wrong, and in the case of death that they never had a life to enjoy. But I wish american cinema and entertaiment didnt try and shield us from something we know happens in life all the time anyway. People try and make entertainment like reality, well, you dont get much more real than kids dying and getting hurt. It happens. And Bukowski had enough balls to write about it.

Read some of these stories please.