![]() ![]() I admit, I'm no Miller scholar, but I think I can say anything I damn well please about this novel-Henry Miller couldn't care less. In a Seinfeld episode Jerry is accused of not returning Tropic of Cancer to the library after checking it out when he was in high school. Maybe Jerry got his "nothing" idea from Miller. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. ![]() Jerry Seinfeld had a successful TV show about nothing. Three of us became even more determined to become "real" writers. One girl reviewed the book with her own curt one-liner, saying that "Tropic of Cancer was confetti of seediness" in her opinion. One girl said she got a sexually transmitted disease from reading it-and she announced that she was going to stop engaging in one night stands, even with cute guys. ![]() One boy in our group insisted that it is "an awesome read" if you are falling down drunk. I first read Tropic of Cancer in a teen reading club. ![]() I've never been as impressed with Henry Miller and Henry Miller is impressed with Henry Miller, but I do appreciate his staggering (specifically chosen word) literary talent, his abrupt/curt one-liners, and some of his intoxicated poetic rantings/ramblings. The preface is supposed to have been written by Anais Nin, but many believe Miller wrote it. Time magazine lists it in their 100 Best English-language novels from 1923-2005. It is also regarded as a masterpiece of 20th century literature. This not really a book plot-less, stream of consciousness, anti-everything, self-indulgent, crudely rudely gimme some boody, was one of the novels in the 1960s that tested USA laws about pornography. ![]()
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