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Tropic of Cancer Mass Market Paperback – June 1, 1995

by Henry Miller (Author), Louise DeSalvo (Introduction)

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Presents the original 1934 text, which was banned in the United States until 1961, and follows the author's often scathing prose, punctuated with graphic sexual observations, in which he criticizes moral hypocrisy and conformist behaviors. Original.

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Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Signet Classics (August 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451526058
ISBN-13: 978-0451526052
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.8 x 6.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
Average Customer Review: 385 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,298,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #12017 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Criticism & Theory
- #32472 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary
- #64274 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary

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the author is writing about a misogynistic individual living in Paris during the depression and he does it with rawness and some

December 22, 2014

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Wow! What a controversial book. I can see why it was banned and why so many opinions are polarized in the ratings. First of all, I have to warn anyone who is thinking about reading this that there is a lot of crude language and blatant description of sex. That didn't bother me. What I did have trouble with was the misogynistic attitude of the main character, who often simply refers to women using the C word and treats them as objects rather than human beings.

That said, the author is writing about a misogynistic individual living in Paris during the depression and he does it with rawness and some beautifully written passages. Anyone reading this book needs to bear in mind that our culture is very different now. I think that reading this with a group who has a knowledgeable leader or using a reading guide is your best bet if you really want to get something out of it. There's a lot of meat to this book - if you can get underneath the layer of crudeness. It's a stream of consciousness piece about life and what it truly means to be happy, and the author shows us that it doesn't necessarily involve being wealthy.

Who should read this: Fans of authors such as Bukowski and Hemingway.
Who should not read this: Anyone who is squeamish or easily offended.

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Brooklyn Boy vs. America

February 27, 2016

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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!

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Kindle Customer Richard E. Moore

Swimming in the Sewers of Paris

October 13, 2016

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Reading Henry Miller is the ultimate literary contradiction. On the one hand, he is a wordsmith with very few equals. The imagination would have to stretch very little to see Miller and William F. Buckley in the salons of Paris in a much earlier time enjoying a glass of the finest wine that Europe had to offer while discussing the politics of the day. In a different time and place, Miller could easily be pictured in a sleazy bar in Manhattan sharing a draft with Larry Flynt deciding the contents of the next edition of Hustled magazine. In Tropic of Cancer, Miller is able to transform himself from Monet painting beautiful pictures with words to the lowest form of humanity crawling out of the swamps of history. This book probably should be shelved in the libraries and bookstores of the world under "Guilty Pleasures"'

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A MASSIVE WASTE OF TIME

October 20, 2018

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Having, for the past 63 years, regarded this book as a victim of prissy, uptight, Victorian-style censorship . . . I was stunned when I finally read it this summer and discovered that (in my opinion and my grown son's opinion) it is nothing but truly disgusting filth, wrapped in a cheap veneer of embarrassingly pretentious, totally sophomoric-sounding pseudo-philosophy that would quickly earn a "D" in any college philosophy class.

I think porn is healthy and totally harmless, and I think we need a lot more really good porn.. But this garbage isn't porn. There's not a single erotic or sexually arousing sentence in the whole book. It just wallows in disgusting -- often nauseating -- filth, purely for the sake of filth. I mean "filth" as in dirty toilets and dung . . . NOT sex..

My grown son is definitely no prude. But he put it this way: "It reads like an adolescent just using a lot of dirty words, purely for the sake of using dirty words." Most of us outgrew that childish urge at age 20. No, it should never have been censored -- not EVER!!!. If people really want to wallow in filth, they ought to be perfectly free to do so. But we can get that for free on the walls of the nearest latrine. Most of us have a lot better uses for our time.

You couldn't possibly pay me enough to waste my time reading this garbage again. Ewww.

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Madame Bête Noire

Superbly intoxicating

March 3, 2016

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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.

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