post office by charles Bukowski.

@xdc the doc wrote:

I seem to detect a lot of Chinaski’s personality in SOIA’s online persona – coincidence?

I can only think you must have been talking to Emma, Doc:

@sickofitall wrote:

Found my copy of this at the weekend so here’s a good place to recommend it.

See, this book is significant because it’s the only one I think a girl has ever used as a reason to dump me. Which also happens to be how I came to read it in the first place.

You know what it’s like, you meet a girl, turn on bullshit mode to trick them into liking you and then spend the next few weeks trying to keep it up and get a jump. Then the facade gets to be a bit too much to be bothered with and you revert to just being yourself. Then reality kicks in for her. Suddenly she turns around one day and tells you she’s splitting up with you on account of you being an apathetic, shallow, nihilistic drunk and you stand there with a look of utter bemusement on your face thinking bloody hell woman, if this is a break up then why the fuck are you listing all my good points?!.

So yeah, on her way out this lass once told me that I was like that man in that post office book. So out of curiosity I went out and got a copy and read it. Thanking her later for her kind words only seemed to rile her further, looking back I don’t think she meant it as a compliment.

So Post Office, a novel for anyone who hates work and the fucking jobsworths who try to tell you it’s important, likes getting drunk and could never make head nor tail of women (see above). This book is about you. You should read it.

Give her my regards. Oh, and do feel free to remind the girl that I’ve had her, and no amount of bitterness on her part can change that fact. Hey ho!