Tropic of Cancer (Penguin Modern Classics)

The book came quickly but the cover was different.

Great book, exactly what I was looking for at a great price.

Utterly debaucherous.

Mixed feelings. Skipped long pages of disconnected use of infinite sentences. Has to be placed in the context of those time

Soft Back Books in Excellent Condition. I'm enjoying my copies of Henry Miller.

Do not like the writing.

Awesome.

YES

I’m not sure. True I couldn’t put it down and read it hungrily. I didn’t mind the use of the c-word and wasn’t or appalled at any of the other language. But neither was I impressed by the book or its author. The author talks a lot about mundanity, the ordinary lives of people and how they follow the routine...and the language pities them or makes then fools or idiots. All the while our starving narrator is making his way around the whorehouses and cafes getting everything for free that he can and not really producing an original thought. This book is a good read and a good story but it’s nowhere near the hype..

However, Henry Miller possessed great talent, and some passages are superlative, but other are not. It is semi-biographical, and the description of bohemian life in Paris is extraordinary, but probably somewhat exaggerated - I hope! Yet Parisian life is certainly depicted, although not in all its facets. Is the novel misogynistic? I think that it is. The rating has given me difficulty. Finally I have it 4 stars for passages written by Miller at his incredible best, but I am not really tempted to explore his output furthrr.

The only stream of consciousness type novel I ever finished and enjoyed. He shouldn't have blamed Dijon for being depressed however. I found this very similar to the Irish novel "The Ginger Man"...

Crazy surreal stream of consciousness autobiographical tales of an obnoxious American in Paris. Together with Orwell's Down and Out In Paris And London and Hemingway's A Moveable Feast it paints a vivid picture of bohemian Paris in the early 20th Century.

Excellent