I enjoy to read about bohemian types. Thompson's evocation of Horatio Alger at the end of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is pretty spot on. My adventure novels involve irresponsible artist types blowing all their money on drugs and women in exotic locales. I am not especially proud of this but a do...
I think I was a virgin when I read it (officially I still am), but he still comes across as a Californian who travelled all the way to Paris just to meet 1 or 2 loose women. I also read it on a very peaceful ferry ride and remember thinking the ferry ride was more of a genuine adventure than most of...
The book is perhaps summed up best by one of its characters: …I’ll lay myself down on the operating table and I’ll expose my whole guts … every goddamned thing. Has anyone ever done that before?—What the hell are you smiling at? Does it sound naïf? It exposes. It hadn’t been done before (well, not i...
Here a cunt, there a cunt, everywhere a cunt cunt ""Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite."But if you begin with masturbation, you don't necessarily end with sex. Here's a guy who exemplifies the stream-of-consciousness mode of writing; he ...
I'm holding off on putting a rating up here - for the sake of my BookClub, since we're not discussing this book for another few weeks. That said, I'm going to put the review up at Raging Biblioholism under some serious spoiler hiding stuff... and I'll star this thing soon as we've all read it.
Read this many years ago, about the same time I read LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER. I must have been trying to get a quick education via the printed page!! LOL
I started this, but I have always had a hard time with stream of consciousness writing. I've read that it isn't all this way, so I'm going to keep trying.
Listening in audio and only on disc 2 of 10 so far. I really can't stand this book! Torn on whether I should finish it (allows me to cross this off the 1001 list and there must be some reason why people like this book) or spend my time doing something less painful ... like income taxes. Yikes - s...
Miller brings another level of stylistic masterpiece to life. There are no obvious heroes, villains, but perhaps the anti-hero is born in these pages. There is also no real plot or formula, just Henry Miller wading through life's mundane mixed with sexuality and grit and doing it with ridiculous aba...
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