Hi Cliff, Nuri here. You're so very welcome. I'm so happy the book made it to you. Thank you so much for all the years of great content, I always look forward to your videos; this one in particular just made my day!

@BetterThanFoodBookReviews

17 күн бұрын

Hey Nuri my pleasure, thanks for commenting and stopping by! And thank you so much for the book - so glad you got to see the review.

being 16 not many people my age are into reading especially it being 2024 but i’ll unashamedly admit this youtube page put me on to many of my favourite authors, i’m making a tuna melt listening to this and awaiting a copy of tropic of cancer in the mail taht cost me all of 5$ i can’t wait to start it

@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv

15 күн бұрын

Reading Orwell's essay on Tropic of Cancer called 'Inside the Whale' puts the book in proper context.

I can't comment on your written work, but it certainly seems like you've found your unique voice when I watch your videos. There are many book review channels, but I only subscribe to one. It wasn't an accident.

True story, when I first read this book a few years back, the opening pages inspired me to write a raunchy love letter that sealed the deal on a woman I had been “wooing” long-distance. A damn fine novel.

@gavinyoung-philosophy

16 күн бұрын

What a cool story! Glad it worked out haha

I think in Sexus, he mentions that he was trying to find his own voice, imitating other writers he admired and this woman he was in love with told him to write like he spoke. Because he was apparently a great orator and would give great speeches to his friends over dinner. Eventually she asked Miller- Why don't you write like you speak? - and that changed everything.

Oh goodness if you could ever find the time to discuss more of Anaïs Nin's books that would be a godsend.

Cancer and Capricorn were life-changing books for me. It was only after reading Celine's, Journey to the End of the Night that I realized how much influence this book had on Miller. Journey is also really funny and has dozens of incredible one-liners. Between Cancer and Capricorn, I'd have to say that Capricorn is my favourite. It was written after Tropic of Cancer, but describes his life in New York before managing to get away to Paris. Nobody can ever look at the Brooklyn Bridge again in quite the same way after reading Capricorn. This was the first book of Millers that I read, when I was 18, and it changed my outlook on life. It's been in my top-3 books ever since. Tropic of Cancer is a book that I'd recommend to anyone feeling despondent/suicidal, as it's life-affirming, to a degree like nothing else I've even known.

What a terrific introduction to Miller. Thanks Clifford. I really enjoyed it. Kudos !

I recently had a book purge, but, I made a rare exception for my Henry Miller collection. Henry Miller is a treasure.

@michellecuadra4445

14 күн бұрын

I get the need to do a book purge but sense you had a beautiful library in the making (1,000) books +).

Huge Miller fan. This is my least favorite of his books. Capricorn is magic, and as Miller matured his love of Life and I dare say of God (Freedom?) grew. Thanks for the review. 🎉❤😊 PS: I read Miller early in life. I read Céline later. I turned up some history on Miller somewhere, that he had Cancer written then read Journey to The End of The Night and scrapped Cancer and rewrote it. Having read most of Céline's work it is clear to me that Miller's style (but not attitude to life) was transformed by Journey and Mort á crédit.

Just picked this one up today, and I already enjoy it a lot. Thanks for the recommendation, Cliff

I love you cliff, you got me into reading a year or two ago. Your reviews always show books I would’ve never read without your input on it, you’re great at explaining why it’s a good read!

its fun to see you young fellas getting into the classics like henry -- my fav of his would be colossus of maroussi

@mavispice3966

17 күн бұрын

Colossus of Maroussi was my favourite book along with Camus' Stranger back in my highschool years

The vocabulary in this book is wild

Hi Cliff, I think you have a very distinctive voice. Just going by your book chats, the way you express yourself is singular.

SWANS rreference! I saw them at the LODGE on Sunday--two and a half hours of pure gold. Thanks for all you do!

I was hoping you would do this book for years!

I literally read this book like, a few weeks back, and you do a video on it!

Dude, I just added this to my bucket list the other week. Nice.

You got me into Flannery O'Conner after your Wise Blood review, and I would love it if you reviewed The Violent Bear it Away.

A wonderful review! I’d just bought this book a little while ago and now I’m doing to read it.

Hi Cliff, I read this book years ago. But I may have to read it again. Right now, I have a copy of Tropic of Capricorn. Please do a review of this book when you can. Have a great day 👍🏽

Awesome review!

Some of the best novels I've read in the last few years have been due to your channel. The Moviegoer, The Sun Also Rises, Wise Blood, The Talented Mr. Ripley. And so on. Can't wait to check this one out. Cheers, Cliff.

Thanks for reading us a key passage.

Great review

I first read this in 2019 right after I broke up with my co-parent. Perfect timing lol! I own Black Spring havent read it yet. Thank you for all your videos!

I read it last year after having it on my shelves since 1995! I enjoyed it, but it’s best read in small doses. Looking forward to your review.

Tropic is definitely hallucinatory. It came out around the time Surrealism was getting going. I think that had an influence on his style.

Omg I've never been first!! Hello Cliff and fellow bookworms!

@billyb6001

17 күн бұрын

Hi

@Margie75

17 күн бұрын

Hello 👋🏽

@meesalikeu

16 күн бұрын

congrats

I love this book. It has been many years since I read it.

What a cool vlog/review. I was in Paris and was like HM short of cash. I showered in the showers on the Isle - 20 mins, ate from the Vietnamese snack bar and so on. Drank a bit too much. Partied when I could - and lots of my friends were into Hem and HM. I once did a mini guide of Hem in Paris. Met Anaïs Nin's nephew on Sundays. Quite a character - Paris was in 2000 quite something. Johnny Depp popped in at Shakespeare and Co where I slept on and off for two years. Wild and exhilarating but it was tough. So I can appreciate HM's take on his time. We all wanted to throw out Koans after a few Tsing Taos.

This novel is wild, been a fav of mine for years

i recently read all of Anais Nin and Henry Miller's letters. one of the best things i ever laid eyes upon

Having read the diaries of Anais Nin and her relationship with Henry Miller, consider me interested in picking up this book.

Great review of one of my favorite writers. But I disagree that Miller's optimism makes him less of an intellectual. Have you read the Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy? You would be surprised by Plexus, part two of the trilogy. It's different than Miller's other work.

Can't wait for Hart Crane. Maybe the most underrated American poet ever.

@meesalikeu

16 күн бұрын

cleveland's finest -- come check out hart crane park in the flats

hello Cliff, Jean here, from Belgium. Did you know that Henry Miller was a huge admirer of Louis-Ferdinand Céline ? As a matter of fact, he totally changed his style when he read Journey to The End of the Night, translated into english in 1933, a year before Tropic of Cancer. Miller is the first American author to admit he owes everything to Céline, then Bukowski, Kerouac and others admitted the same… all the best

@marknewton6984

16 күн бұрын

I briefly met Kerouac in Florida '68 at a bookstore. He was reading "Tropic of Cancer."

George Orwell's essay on Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer amongst other things is a classic which gives proper context. It's called Inside the Whale.

@meesalikeu

16 күн бұрын

i wish cliff would do down and out in paris and london

@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv

14 күн бұрын

@@meesalikeu He's a liberal so he probably wouldn't get it.

22:58 Sounds like my kind of man! This will be my next read.

Best HM books: Colossus of Marroussi, Plexus, Tropic of Capricorn.Also read Anais Nin's journals to see a woman's perspective on Miller. Very interesting books

Found Tropic of Cancer in the early 1990's and it still felt like I was sneaking something I wasn't supposed to be seeing. Along with Bukowski, it was stunning that stories could be about such things...these were not the stories of Hero doing heroic things...

You never disappoint, good sir.

Tropic is far more interesting than The Sun Also Rises, but then I'm not a Hemingway fan. Thanks for this.

@meesalikeu

16 күн бұрын

not really, but henry or hem for that matter too are not for everybody

Been meaning to read this for a few years now, even owned a copy I found for like 2$ once, and got rid of it 😅. I’m gonna have to prioritize lol

Been a while a since i read tropic of cancer but i remember laughing my ass off at the whole ending sequence. Reading tropic of capricorn atm, Henry Miller is so infectiously shameless, reading him just makes you want to go out and be alive.

@joejs7659

17 күн бұрын

Nicely phrased.

He’s vulgur in the best way

I've been listening to Gibson's neuromancer. Do you have an opinion of audiobooks or bolano or Fowles' Magnus? My wife just 2 books she's "kept" for me.

you're brilliant... love your reviews .... mentally stimulating .... best book review channel on YT

Seems with me being almost 31, I really need to read this book. Wasted too much time in life, maybe this can help.

Cliff, what your wife said about women being places in literature reminded me of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It's a great book but it lacks narrative. Still, you might enjoy reading it. It's very short.

My bookcase almost fell on me last week… not good. I tried to move it without taking out the books… pulled it towards me…The Darwin Award club tried to take me. My dogs said: “well shit”. My cat said: “damn, that should’ve worked.”

Miller, Bataille, Ballard… Who’s the fourth?

Hi, Cliff! The section around 20:45 talking about "woman as place" is really interesting to me. My favorite philosopher, Gilles Deleuze, talks about this idea a bit in one of his interviews with Claire Parnet in the series "L'Abcedaire de Deleuze". ("D" for Desire). The way Deleuze talks about wanting to experience another almost as one experiences a location--to be wrapped up in the folds of another, etc. -- is just so interesting to me. Anyway, cool parallel I thought I'd point out. Love the videos!

"when i look down on this C___ of a W____" Well hot damn!

Please review Culture of Critique

One of my Fave books, i read it and also recommend listening to IAN MCSHANE Narrated Audio Version

you need to get to the colossus of maroussi, the best work of his imo. but i think you should read tropic of capricorn first

Off topic, but what do you think of jordan peterson?

His writing style feels powerful. It’s crass and rambles but also flowery. Yet, unlike some stream of consciousness type narratives, this isn’t hard to follow. I want to get a oomaharumooma tattoo.

Sometimes a cigar is just that.

Wow that's a long one

You are beginning to look like Hemingway 👍

I couldn't get into neither t.o.c. or its companion. I did enjoy the film henry & june. I saw it in the theater & my first what was XXX film & could hear people "adjust" during most risque films.

When it's a hi

ja Cliché is a real village in France, people forget...

I don't know this book, but Lana del Rey read it for sure.

6:25 Maybe even if Miller was the amalgamation of his favored influences, that composite style transcended any one derivation. Finding a unique voice is a miraculous thing, like telepathy. Think of it. If some new Kurt Vonnegut piece is found & published - - like 'The Last Tasmanian' in SUCKER'S PORTFOLIO 12 years ago - - & you showed one anonymous para that had no obvious unique identifiers in there - - no ref to Indianapolis or Dresden or the family etc - - I'd know before the para ended who the author is. How is that possible, out of all the authors in the world? He's not my countryman, he's not my generation, he's not my class, his university education is not my field, our life experiences are vastly different, & we never met... how is it possible that I could recognise his authorial voice without any clues? You have found your unique voice not when a friend says of your writing, "Oh that's so *you* ," but when a total stranger across the Atlantic says it. If we don't have a unique voice, we might still be an excellent writer well worth reading. We just wouldn't be in that rare echelon whose style enables us to be, at least while we're reading, telepathic.

I'd say everything by Miller up to The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945) is worth reading. Black Spring (1936) is his masterpiece. Could not get through The Rosy Crucifixion because he regrettably adjusted his style and made these long books unbearably boring reads.

Endeared

Tropic Of Cancer is okay, but it ain’t great. If you want to hear an intelligent, well-balanced critique of TOC which doesn’t merely consist of the usual rote, clichéd piffle, look up Richard Leiter’s book review entitled “Henry Miller’s Tropic Of Cancer: Flashes Of Brilliance But….” I’ll wager that it will change your view of the book significantly. Cheers.

Hi Cliff, lose that ridicules mustache and shave.

Can you do flannery O'Connor

@andyalam5074

17 күн бұрын

He did.

@YourFathersDad

14 күн бұрын

@@andyalam5074 when?