Tropic of Capricorn (Miller, Henry) by Henry Miller (MOBI)

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Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborhoods and Miller’s outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.

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⭐The story & the main character do not develop in any meaningful way. Read any ten pages, and you can skip the rest without missing much.I imagine this would be a fun read for someone very young (high school, pre-high school), or someone who has never read/thought about philosophy before. I would highly recommend this book to you if this description fits you! Let it serve as a gateway to better literature.Henry Miller is without a doubt very talented. I am not sure if he just plainly did not use his talent well, or, maybe, he was intentionally using this style of writing as a way emphasizing his message… Either way, I wish this was a ten-page short story instead. It could have been one of the best short stories ever written. As it stands now, it’s just a mediocre book. In retrospect, I regret making the purchase.For those who are interested in Henry Miller’s style or message, but are 18+ or read philosophy, I recommend you read Celine’s Journey to the End of the Night instead. It is a thousand times better.

⭐Tropic of Cancer gets all the attention, but Tropic of Capricorn may be the more important book. Written five years later, we see Miller’s earlier years in Brooklyn, his total alienation and disgust with America, his early sexual exploits. If you haven’t read Miller before, do not expect a novel or any cohesive structure to the book. Between short autobiographical episodes, often hilarious and explicit, he goes on long lyrical rants which amount to prose poems a la Whitman. Some are overblown philosophical/religious rants, others explorations into the nature of sex, modern man, art, America, what have you. If you are easily offended, avoid this book. If you don’t want your vocabulary expanded, avoid this book. Miller’s first marriage is sort of a background to the action, a marriage so loveless that he refers to his family only as “the wife” and “the kid” as he pursues other women continually. Near the end, he meets his second wife, June, not mentioning her by name, but doing a dissection of her character, as a prequel to The Rosy Cruxifixion trilogy. He also brings himself into the Dadaist and Surrealist circles, claiming he was the first American Dadaist without knowing it. Regardless of what you think of Henry and his influence on American literature, this book’s worth reading. Two middle fingers up!

⭐Out of idle curiosity and a desire to reread (third time) Miller’s Tropic novels, I checked the consumer reviews of Tropic of CANCER first. I am interested in new generations discovering the stuff that I read going back to the early 60s. I found the reviews surprisingly dense, repeating the old cliches and personal prejudices.Those of TROPIC OF CAPRICORN, on the other hand, are pointed and intelligent. Moreover, they recognize one of Miller’s great traits— humor. One reviewer pointed out the book’s “hilarity”, an apt characterization. Another emphasized Miller’s description of the Cosmodemonic messenger service at which he worked. This is one of the most memorable sections of any book I have read: hilarious, biting satire, and (before Miller departs) a great New York book.I have always thought Miller was, among other things, a parodist, and thus those who take him too literally (from Norman Mailer to the guy who showered after reading CANCER)are missing one of our outstanding writers, or certainly mistaking the author for the narrator.

⭐Oddly arranged, and strangely strung together, but once I managed to get into the peculiar rhythm of Miller’s flow, I was nothing less than enchanted. Some moments are blatantly candid and real (some might say offensive), and others are poetically raw and heart wrenching. His scope for manipulating prose has made this a truly memorable book for me, and probably one of my favourite to date.

⭐Henry Miller is a way out there cat. Bring your thinking cap and imagination with you when you crack this one open.

⭐If some 4000 pages of nothing but the so called authors boring mechanical and repetitive sex descriptions with every female he encounters, and page after page of Thesaurus words interests you, go for it. No story line or interesting anything. Tried to give it no stars but review wouldn’t let me. Total waste of good money.

⭐Talking on and on not making sense was very distracting. I liked when he talked about real life experiences

⭐Couldn’t finish this. Classic American literature that I couldn’t get into. My tastes…

⭐I really like it and I found it very useful for my personal interests in arts and literature. It comes as it is described, so very satisfactory.

⭐phantastic

⭐Classic re-read!

⭐Great record of the author’s life in Paris

⭐The book itself needs no commentary, an epochal classic. I want to comment on the presentation, i.e. this particular Penguin books edition. Not to judge a book by its cover, but still it is important to the pleasure of reading that the object one holds in one’s hands meet certain aesthetic standards – and that the cover be somehow suitable to the content. So it’s no faint praise to say that this is one of the few editions of Henry Miller’s books that is actually pleasing to the eye. Outside of the New Directions titles and the now-rare Olympia Press and Obelisk Press editions published in Paris, Miller’s books seem to be stubbornly fated to cheap tasteless cover designs – of which the absolute nadir has to be the Grove Press editions of the 1960s, which are still omnipresent. The cover design for this Penguin edition of the two “Tropics” is for once tasteful, and the artwork appropriate to the contents.This being said, I am surprized – particularly given this is a Penguin edition – by the poor quality of the text printed here. Typos abound on nearly every page – even gross errors like incomplete sentences. It looks to me like some poor beast at Penguin was assigned to re-type the whole novel based on a previous printed edition, and were not all that into what they were reading… and nobody else bothered to read it again after they were done.

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