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Tropic of Cancer

De: Henry Miller
Narrado por: Campbell Scott
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Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s with unapologetic gusto, and is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, ""one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."" The audiobook is narrated by acclaimed actor Campbell Scott.

Now hailed as an American classic, Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its initial publication in Paris in 1943; only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction.

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A tale of a cad, a fairly week human, these follies that make up the vast majority of us. Ignore the course writing style and it, Tropic of Cancer, could supply the pieces that are left out of those masterpieces that cloak and suggest or allude to what drives all of us.

That drive to quell drive

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The story line revolving solely around a pathetic young man led through life by his cock didn’t really hold my interest. The writing style was more entertaining than the plot. Entertaining as far as surrealism goes but needed more substance.

Fun writing style boring story

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I will start out with the general review of the story and writing style and then talk about Henry as an individual because I have alot to say on that. But first, the narrator did a good job at capturing that deadpan voice of Henry miller. Besides the slightly annoying music that plays between chapters, it’s a good performance!

I started this book after reading many of Anais Nins books (Anais was a lover and fellow writer of Henry)
and I thought Tropic of Cancer would be rather brilliant because all of Anais Nins writing is brilliant and she gave Henry high praise. But Henry doesn’t come close to the level of Anais nin. First of, the book doesn’t have a plot, it’s more of a dairy of Henry’s life which occasionally trails off into abstract trails of thought. It feels like you’re listening to someone’s mind. The book follows a lot of gross, sexually explicit, and disturbing topics. He seemed to have a fascination with the gross parts of the human body (a lot of potty humor). And if this book does a good job at illustrating anything, it would be BAD SMELLS. He really knows how to make your stomach turn with the description of how gross a room smelled. When it comes to sex, he was practically always talking about it in a way which really ruins one’s own appetite. He makes it gross. He refers to woman only as cunts and talks about their bodies in ways that make your skin crawl.
Over all, the books writing style isn’t very appealing and was probably only so highly regarded because it was new at the time.

Now, about Henry as an individual: prior to reading this book, I only had the description which Anais nin made of Henry. She did a good job at making him seem half decent because I had believed him to be a complex man who had a good heart at his core, but once I started reading his book, it became obvious that this man had no empathy for anyone. He was sexist. But beyond that, he didn’t necessarily seem to have respect for the men in his life either. He seemed to think very lowly of everyone in his life and was probably just more harsh to woman because It was more acceptable to be horrible to woman at that time. He steals, lies, sexually assaults and then ridicules everyone in his book. He was the type of man you hope you never meet. His writing definitely gives you a shockingly stark perspective and makes you understand what people mean when they talk about how you can’t trust all men. To name off just a few times he treated people inhumanly: 1 he referred to every woman as a “cunt”. I never heard the word woman used once in this book. 1 He sexually assaulted woman on multiple occasions (tho this was unfortunately more common at that time). 3 he is always stealing money from people. A lot of money. At one point, he pays for a woman to sleep with him and after she does, he sneaks into her closet and takes the money back. That’s not even the worst of it. 4, at one point, a man in his office building died from falling down the stairs, Henry finds this hilarious and laughs while he ridicules the man for dying like that. He then pretends to be sympathetic in order to get the dead man’s job….yeah. Wtf. This man had no human empathy.

For an overall review, he wasn’t a good man, and his writing was off putting. BUT, it does definitely give you a good look into the mind of someone so different and it makes you feel better about yourself. If you worry about being a good person, this book will definitely make you realize that you aren’t that bad and that some people are truly awful😂

Interesting from a story prospective, horrible from a moral and personality perspective.

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The music between chapters on this one is so bad and incongruous with the narrative it becomes something to dread whilst the story plods on.

Awful bumper music

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one of the greatest American novelists. tropic of cancer is a masterpiece. great narration of the novel. enjoyed it thoroughly.

amazing novel by Miller

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