Book · 1934 · Autobiographical fiction
Tropic of Cancer
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I mean the larger story is when I was 21 I read a book called Tropic of Cancer, right? And it it was by Henry Miller.
The best things said about it
I read The Tropic of Cancer the other day. You read Tropic of Cancer, it's like, it goes from extreme explicitness, it's like a train of thought of like a man.
Some time since the early 60s, we kicked free of all the dumbest restraints on free speech, government censorship, you could publish, you couldn't legally publish "Lady Chatterley's Lover" James Joyce's, "Ulysses", Henry Miller's, "Tropic of Cancer", Alan Ginsberg's, "Howl" before about 1960 without worrying about being dragged into court.
Uh uh uh um tropic of cancer [ __ ] blanken on his name great author you'd know his name right away and he wrote sexist and plexus [ __ ] jamie henry miller henry henry miller wrote these really crazy sexual drunk filled [ __ ] up books.
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Why people recommend it
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller is a landmark autobiographical novel renowned for its raw, unfiltered depiction of bohemian life in Paris and its boundary-pushing approach to sexuality and human experience. On The Rich Roll Podcast, James Frey discussed reading the book at age 21, explaining how Miller's unvarnished style profoundly inspired his own ambitions to become a writer and instilled a lifelong belief in his creative path. Louis CK similarly brought up Miller's work on The Joe Rogan Experience, praising the author's fearless dive into personal experience and visceral storytelling through books like Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. On How I Write, Riva Tez referenced Miller's novel to illustrate the intense, stream-of-consciousness explicitness that distinguishes older literary works from more sanitized modern prose. Furthermore, Nick Gillespie discussed the novel on The Rubin Report within the historical context of free speech, citing Tropic of Cancer alongside other previously banned masterpieces that liberated literature from oppressive government censorship. These podcast discussions collectively celebrate Miller's work as a revolutionary piece of writing that permanently altered the landscape of modern artistic expression and personal freedom.
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James Frey I mean the larger story is when I was 21 I read a book called Tropic of Cancer, right? And it it was by Hen… 2
“I mean the larger story is when I was 21 I read a book called Tropic of Cancer, right? And it it was by Henry Miller.”
“From the day I decided to do it, from the day I finished reading Tropic of Cancer, I believed.”
Louis CK uh uh uh um tropic of cancer [ __ ] blanken on his name great author you'd know his name right away and he… 1
“uh uh uh um tropic of cancer [ __ ] blanken on his name great author you'd know his name right away and he wrote sexist and plexus [ __ ] jamie henry miller henry henry miller wrote these really crazy sexual drunk filled [ __ ] up books”
Nick Gillespie some time since the early 60s, we kicked free of all the dumbest restraints on free speech, government cens… 1
“some time since the early 60s, we kicked free of all the dumbest restraints on free speech, government censorship, you could publish, you couldn't legally publish "Lady Chatterley's Lover" James Joyce's, "Ulysses", Henry Miller's, "Tropic of Cancer", Alan Ginsberg's, "Howl" before about 1960 without worrying about being dragged into court”
Riva Tez I read The Tropic of Cancer the other day. You read Tropic of Cancer, it's like, it goes from extreme expli… 1
“I read The Tropic of Cancer the other day. You read Tropic of Cancer, it's like, it goes from extreme explicitness, it's like a train of thought of like a man.”
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“Everyone knows the feeling when their book is overdue at the library and they don't want to pay the overdue fee. What's the problem? This you're not going to believe. The New York Public Library says that I took out Tropic of Cancer in 1971 and never returned it.”
“And this is a different Henry Miller than the one that wrote like Tropic of Cancer, right?”
“there is a new Ed book store that I like not new but you know there there's one that I've discovered on the upper west side you know there's a character in Tropic of Cancer who never wants other people to know what he's reading”
“but it doesn't equate to like the the immortality of being banned like howl or tropic of cancer or salman rushdie”