Pulp

I'm so happy that I found out about Charles Bukowski. This definitely wasn't my favorite and was a bit all over the place for me- but I still enjoyed the characters. It's one of those books that makes you ask again and again "Where is this going?".  Even this vague description on goodreads should have been a sign to me that this was going to be like a bad trip (not that I have 'tripped' on anything):

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

If you haven't read Bukowski yet, I wouldn't start with this one.