Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
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Author: Henry MillerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-01-06
ISBN: 0802131786
Number of pages: 318
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: "What do we want with books anyway? There are too many books already..."
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is unlike any I have read before. It is really hard to tell if it is poetry or a novel...something of a mixture of the two. It mix's beauty and vulgarity. Philosophy with perverted sex. It is an intensly colorful "f**k you everyone" Completly unapologitic.
The story is simple, it basically chronicles the struggles of a young American writer living in Paris (as well as other parts of France throughtout the story, but mainly in Paris.) This man has strange happenings with slightly crazy women, prostitutes, rude Indians and other would be writers struggling to stay alive. Through most of the story the main character has two priorities; food and c*nt (as he puts it) in that order. Most of the time he is starving willing to eat anything, crusty bread or soup that is kept cool in the toilet when not being ate. That is as much as I'll say, the ending, I have to admit was a little disapointing, kind of abrupt, but the book is still easily worth reading and I still give it 5 stars.
Part memoir, part novel, part poetry and part philosophy. This is a book well worth your time that will shock you as it makes you laugh. But I hope you have the stomach for it.
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