A friend of mine is an avid reader so I lent her Notes of a Dirty Old Man. She got 30 pages into the book and gave it back. She called Buk: morose, confusing, disjointed and overindulgent. She called the book:'Depressing', 'Pointless','How do you accidentally rent a room in a whore house?', 'He's always drunk', 'A baseball ball player with wings?', 'When you lent this book to me, you said it would be funny, well,it wasn't funny, it was disturbing'...I guess Bukowski isn't for everyone.