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So Glad This and the rest of the Bandini series is available
After being out of print for so long, I searched old bookstore for any of Fante's books, having been told of him by others. These are important works and I am thrilled that they are finally available to a new audience.
Bandini is a great character with an interesting s...
Bandini is a great character with an interesting s...
After being out of print for so long, I searched old bookstore for any of Fante's books, having been told of him by others. These are important works and I am thrilled that they are finally available to a new audience.
Bandini is a great character with an interesting story arc throughout the series, I won't spoil it by describing it any more than that, you need to experience the life for yourself.Then read Dan Fante, his son and a great author not to be missed.
Bandini is a great character with an interesting story arc throughout the series, I won't spoil it by describing it any more than that, you need to experience the life for yourself.Then read Dan Fante, his son and a great author not to be missed.
posted by Ronald_De_La_O on February 17, 2011
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Bandinni the great
Compared to 'The Road to Los Angeles,' this book was mediocre. I like Bandinni, but the book was rather a bore. The waitress bored me, the earthquake bored me and so on. 'The Road to Los Angeles,' which I believe was his first book, kicked some serious Bandinni.
posted by Anonymous on July 10, 2002
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So Glad This and the rest of the Bandini series is available
After being out of print for so long, I searched old bookstore for any of Fante's books, having been told of him by others. These are important works and I am thrilled that they are finally available to a new audience.
Bandini is a great character with an interesting story arc throughout the series, I won't spoil it by describing it any more than that, you need to experience the life for yourself.Then read Dan Fante, his son and a great author not to be missed.3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted June 11, 2006
Where's the Beef?
Fante's characters are starving during the depression, but so is his story. It adds up to little, and his people are unattractive and unbalanced. Best read as a historical curiosity.
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted July 10, 2002
Bandinni the great
Compared to 'The Road to Los Angeles,' this book was mediocre. I like Bandinni, but the book was rather a bore. The waitress bored me, the earthquake bored me and so on. 'The Road to Los Angeles,' which I believe was his first book, kicked some serious Bandinni.
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Anonymous
Posted August 8, 2001
Crazy Bandini
I don't even know what to write. My roommate thinks I'm insane from laughing out loud at this book time after time. It will grab you by the face and make you chew until you've digested every word. I was reading some article on Bukowski that cross referenced this book, so I had to pick it up. I just picked up 'The Road to Los Angeles' and it's already got me. Arturo Bandini, lover, poet, madman. You gotta check this guy out.
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Anonymous
Posted December 10, 2012
Great!!
I had to read this for my english class so initially I wasn't interested. After reading it I can say I really enjoyed it and I will be buying the other books about Arturo Bandini.
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Anonymous
Posted February 22, 2012
ok...
Don't see why it is so highly rated by some though.
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Anonymous
Posted December 30, 2011
I am NOT Aruturo Bandini!
I purchased this book based on a review on the National Public Radio web site. It certainly is everything that the review promised. It¿s well written. The setting, characters and situations really draw you in. My problem is with the protagonist. Arturo Bandini is an adolescent, self destructive, misogynist, doofus. Maybe Bandini finds enlightenment and escapes his pathetic, pointless way of life in the end. But Fante provides no basis for the reader to care about the protagonist one way or the other. And, I don¿t. I wished him luck and stopped reading around chapter five.
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Posted June 9, 2011
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Another+great+classic+coming+from+L.A.+John+Fante+is+very+talented%2Cthe+book+is+very+well+written+yet+it+was+piblished+back+in+the+1930s.Shows+how+the+challenges+we+have+today+was+almost+no+different+then.Highly+recommend+thid+book+to+those+who+love+Charles+Bukowski..
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Regina-SmartA
Posted November 15, 2010
I Also Recommend:
Heartbreaking Love Affair.
From dust to dust, I guess you can say. This is really a sad love story about a man who thinks the most important thing in life is being a famous writer. Then he meets a waitress, and we realize that deep down, more than anything else, he really wants love. But the woman he loves is a junkie, and that's the tragedy. He'll never have the real thing that would give his life meaning. I love this book. The sad ending. The style of writing. Of course I found this book through reading Charles Bukowski and he mentions this title. Great book. Recommended. I just came off reading another novel about drug abusers, Permanent Obscurity. Weird, but this book was the perfect follow up. If you like Charles Bukowski or Richard Perez, you'll really like this.
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Anonymous
Posted October 23, 2004
delicious
Oh what a treat our little Fante provides for us with this mis-en-scene slice of life from early twentieth century Los Angeles. This was one of Bukowski's favorites and how delightful! Such a shame Jean Genet was lounging round those catwalks in Aix-en-provence or he would have blown his little load getting his greedy hands on this stuff. Then of course, Burroughs may have sufficed. Oh my land, oh my land! What a queer little sultry thing Fante has done here- though generally he has little coutere.
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