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Summary: Original work
Review: Miller does write prose like it was poetry. It's difficult to compare him to another writer, but Lawrence Durrell does come close. (It isn't ironic that both were good friends!)Tropic of Cancer is very heartful. There isn't anything Miller leaves hidden about himself. But it's his style that really grabs the reader.
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Summary: It was so good that it made my solar plexus hurt
Review: This is the most bodaciously beautiful bundle of booty I have ever read. Sometimes, I like to take a warm bubble bath and baste my body while I read this book. Surprisingly surreal, excitingly eloquent, and intriguingly intoxicating. A rollercoaster ride of pleasure and pain, this book is lugubrious and lascivious all at once.
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Summary: Not for the weak
Review: Miller writes like poetry. His brutal honesty, rantings, and sexual deviation are not for the weak. This book is like a bible to me. I can pick it up, turn to any page and find something that inspires me to feel or think in a way I usually would not.
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Summary: Awe-inspiring simplicity
Review: It takes a very talented writer to turn a list of complaints about every turn life has to offer into a stunning work of literature. And it takes an especially talented human being to transcend these complaints and turn them into true lust for life. I will never forget the shock of recognition I felt after reading one page of ToC. For anyone who's spent an extended span of time outside of his/her own natal country, HM's disgust/addiction to the ways of the ex-pat are dead-on and intoxicating. A fabulous book, which was probably censored for all the wrong reasons and amazingly misinterpreted for scores of years. I think we're just now finally able to get what it is HM was going for.
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Summary: Relentless
Review: I masturbated to this book relentlessly for what seemed like months. Fine holiday fun.
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Summary: Awe-inspiring
Review: Before I chose to research this book as part of a course on banned books (it was banned for over 30 years in the US!), I had never heard of Miller in my life...I'm forever grateful that I became aware of this book. Now, it took me a little while to get used to the blunt street language and graphic (be forewarned....REALLY graphic) description that Miller uses, but once you get a sense of the spirit of the book, you get over it. This book amazed me... I gasped aloud more than once at the unlikely beauty and fierce passion that explodes from the page. This is unlike any other book ever written. Amazing.
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Summary: Tropic of Cancer
Review: This book is an essential piece of work, if you want to understand the mentality of the American in the hay days of France in the 20's and 30's. Mr. Miller basically wrote what came to his mind just as Joyce did in Ulysses. He is one of the few greats who had to leave this puritannical hell in order to express himself. Between him and Anais there are no others in the world of early 1900's eroticism
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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: "Tropic of Cancer" is, and remains, one of the seminal works of American Literature. Why? Because it has what the Spanish call "duende," what the negroes call "soul"; it rises to absorbing heights of apocalyptic poetry and sinks down into a Man's deepest intimacy; it pulses, it vibrates, it breathes. In short, it has Life. Few works of art can likewise claim this; and, because of that, they have sadly dated. "Tropic of Cancer" has not. In fact, Miller won the cultural war. That is why his memory is, now, clouded by the swarm of poseurs who give his intense, free-form style a bad name. Writers like Kerouac and Bukowski--and many, many more--simply can't draw on the cultural fund that Miller has at his command; they don't speak the languages Miller did; they didn't have the education that the poet carelessly flouted. As a result, their sad, vulgar ranting comes off like a cartoon next to Miller's impressionist painting. Boys, stick to Jack Kerouac. Men---on to Nietzsche! Hermann Hesse! And Henry Miller!
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Summary: uhh
Review: Either you're joking, or you need a clue - but even if you were making some moronic attempt at humor, for those who don't know, ARTHUR miller wrote death of a salesman, the crucible, our town, and All my Sons, and married marilyn monroe.
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Summary: Should be in every school library.
Review: For the information of Mr Patrick Inglis; Death of a Salesman was written by Arthur Miller, and not Henry. No wonder he was surprised by the sudden shift of literary technique. 'Cancer' is one of the 20th Century's greatest books, in my opinion.Ground breaking and provocative.And for anyone who is upset by the language....you don't have to read it out loud!
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