What does /lit/ think of Henry Miller?

He has become my favorite writer. I justed started reading seriously so that may change, but, to me, he's a great -- a true successor to Whitman.

>>9697243
I REALLY like those glasses

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>>9697326
This thread is now about Henry Miller slaying qts

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>>9697243
big sur was absolute garbage.

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>>9697365
Is that where you started? Why not Tropic of Cancer?

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>>9697371
i live in california and i like big sur so i thought it would be interesting. it wasn't, really.

is tropic of cancer better?

I finished reading Tropic of Cancer recently and loved it. The prose has that ecstatic, Whitmanian (as another anon said) quality that's really captivating. It was a bit self indulgent (then again I think that's kind of the point) but mostly brilliant, and also pretty funny.

>>9697243
A fantastic writer, one of the best to come out of the US. He saw the ecstatic and sublime within the mundane, much like his hero Matisse.

>>9697243
He's fine when he's not doing the apocalyptic prophet stuff, and his California books are better than the Tropics and the trilogy.

>stuck in a room for hours with a new girl today
>she brings up languages and mentions she wants to learn arabian
>i can see that she is immediately mortified at her mistake but too embarrassed to self-correct it
>idgaf, shit happens and i'm high on cocaine anyways
>15 minutes later she mentions that the crucible is her favorite drama (srsly?)
>see my opening to level the playing field
> — right, right, henry miller wrote that....and tropic of cancer too, I say.
> And she, after a moment's pause — YES! isn't he great?

Lauren, if thou lurke, hear this!
You are a lady of most excellent fancy: thicc & enduring.
Only seventeen, yet the Muse calls:

I'd stay 'twixt your thighs
till East meets West,
and follow your eyes,
from cavern to crest.

Pools of tide,
no measure to man,
till rose-fingered dawn
raises her hand.

Wet with your blessing,
and not nearly wed;
hand me a towel,
for you hath bled.

>>9697243
Generally too pornographic for my taste. But his prose is fantastic. Smile at the foot of the ladder was fantastic.