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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I have to admit that Henry miller is one author I've never been able to get into. I read Capricorn and Cancer but just didn't see it at all. I should give him another go. I read them when I was about 16, which may have been a bit young.
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From you, this astonishes me. Miller, I maintain, was like the beats but had a much firmer grip on his subservience to better writers. By which I mean he dicks about with stream of consciousness but doesn't quite turn into the mawkish terror that is Kerouac. He talks like a snake-oil charmer but is just Jewish enough to get away with it - sorry, Burroughs acolytes. Also, he's a bit of a pathetic character, something I've always found lacking from a lot of American writers - someone like Easton-Ellis always heads towards this pseudo-nihilism that just galls.
Ok, so I've just insulted most of your taste in books, but a lot of you really need to stop reading like a 19-year-old.