Good to see a reader breaking out of the Hammett Cain Chandler Woolrich|Irish McDonald McDonald Spillane Thompson Goodis Ellroy Mosley mold they are all good but I love those simple paperback noir novels like Goodis wrote from his home!!!!!

Fantastic review. Boom, subscribed!

Finally a book review about Sanctuary. I don’t know if you are still posting videos but I hope you do, it felt good knowing that I wasn’t the only one confused but thrilled with this one :)

Terrific review - post your film review as well 😊

I think the book is more about how the system sucks your soul and makes you a slave to money. You thereby lose the spirit, the creative fire that makes the experience of being alive so unique and wonderful. In that sense its actually spiritual. I don't think Miller was a mysogynist. I am certain he would have cheered a similar book if it had been written by a woman who had had anonymous sex with loads of men or pricks - indeed he was good friends with Anais Nin and Erica Jong, so go figure. He was celebrating all women and the life affirming act of sex by not being specific. If he had focused on one woman he would have set her up as an ideal against which to judge other women. I think you have misunderstood him and read him too literally. Think again. I love his imaginative, candid prose. In my view it has few equals. He also raises the battle cry of "freedom", helping people of either sex break free from the shackles society tries to place on them, to control them and maintain the status quo.

I audited a course half a century ago--the teacher was an icon; I just made some notes in the text, according to her remarks, for me to go back to later. Half a century later. My own mother is ninety-two and getting more gaunt, dying. I'm retired now and helping her as much as I can. The family is a little conflicted about "what needs to be done." (Nursing home or stay at home?) Then I read an article by a brilliant young monk-theogian about "the art of dying." The book has helped me come to terms with everything, literally everything. I mean, As I Lay Dying. Now I know why that professor compared Faulkner to Shakespeare...

Busy rationality

It’d be funny if some teen picked your copy of The Tropic of Cancer out of the little free library…. Lol the depravity!

Read Ross Macdonald, almost any book. Chandler with psychological insight.

It hurts me that a person who can speak as cogently as you can on these matters gave up so quickly on KZbin.

sorry...there's too much of that stuff in the news these days for anyone who wants to stay sane to go buy a book so he/she can get more of it.

Read it, loved it, watched the movie, enjoyed your comments

I read this book. And, each time I read it, I just can’t believe how brave she was. It is so wonderful how she decided to step up and raise her siblings while completing her GED. So that she could make a better life for them and her self. That stepdad makes me so angry.

Ever since I discovered Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler I've preferred Hardboiled Detective.

you dont know what you are talking about......Henry Miller is one of the most influencual figures in american literature he influenced a whole generation after him. You can search opinions about him as a person from the people tha knew him....he is a far better person than you....for that i am absolutely sure....just compare the way you speak and the way he was talking

I never got what people said was so hard about Faulkner's tyle. It's definitely unique, but all you need to do is just spend time immersing yourself in his books

Thank you for your input...just waiting on a copy ....looking forward to the read...

okay okay i will

Too bad that the discussion has stopped. I would've joined the club, although i am not well read in general

I finished the book today. blew my god damn mind. i thought it was slow until i reached the second half, and then all of a sudden it clicked and i couldn’t put it down. surely one of the best books i've ever read. i feel absolutely horrified about Darl going insane and losing it right at the end. and the sad hopeless dad stealing his daughters abortion money to buy new teeth! brilliantly depressing. I’m from England so i’m utterly fascinated by American literature. in english lit at school we did look at American books but merely skimmed the surface. I recommend Ask the Dust by John Fante. this is my favourite of all time

i'm a little late to the party but i think the whole point of this book was to explore a character who never gets better. Often times in fiction, and within our real world as well, there is often a push to 'rectify' or 'fix' ourselves through therapy and other forms of psychological help. What Yanagihara does is to challenge that notion and basically question to what extent does excessive trauma cause someone to be past the point of redemption/therapy and I thought that was a great conversation to be having with this book, given that we know so little about issues like PTSD, suicide and major depression and the pervasive nature of childhood abuse.

It’s set in 1900, published in 1967

Going on a TANgent? Pun, right? Right.

Where´s the review?

Cobra kai brought me here

Please do not read anything from Michel Houellebecq if Henry Miller is offensive to you.

Yeah I agree in re:parallels between Mishima and Bataille. I don't know that I see it as a rejection of femininity per se but the emphasis on the austere masculine ideal kind of does this implicitly I guess. In re:the political implications of the book and Mishima's work more generally I would say that while I think he is largely sincere in his nationalistic worldview that ulimtately this serves as a vehicle for the expression of something even more fundamental to his psyche(something to do with an ideal related to the erotic, aesthetic and spiritual vale of a romantic death).

Faulkner's attempt at writing hard-boiled noir and does a pretty damn good job of it.

I’m almost finished with it, after a long pause. For me, it’s a hard book to read, and not really rewarding. Too many character voices, which diminishes character depth. Above all, the story is not compelling enough.

I don’t think Mishima supports Noboru ideals. It seems to me that it’s more like his view on Japan’s political standing displayed in a microcosm. Mishima believed strongly in the code of Bushido which in many ways is the opposite of Noburo’s lack of vision for what’s important in life.

Have you found any other great Bruce / E Street books in the past few years?

Thank you from.South Korea

I was trying to find a meaning for the word "hard-boiled" because I encountered the word in the early 1900s book. Thanks for sharing!

That hard-boiled genre sounds almost noir and crime combined.

I'm from Germany, a pretty avid reader, and I watch a lot of book tubers from the US, but in your series you name authors that are never ever talked about here! Except for Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway maybe. I am learning a lot here, I am taking notes! Thank you so much, you are very engaging!

Read it in college about ten years ago. Never forgot my favorite chapter: “my mother is a fish”. Gotta read this bad boy again

Wait Whitney I miss you wtf, plz come back. I watched your videos in college and now I’m getting ready to start teaching English.... crazy

The novel is set in 1900, not in the hippy culture. Read the book carefully. It is not a satire. Convoluted plot? it's a linear narrative.

I love Cormoran Strike series. :) Finished 'Whose Body' by D L Sayers yesterday. I am going to side with Classical Detectives. Love Doyle and Christie. :)

I'll readily grant you that HM had his faults (among which must be included that he was a product of a society and an environment that did not value the same things we do today; yes, he alternately objectified and worshiped women...go figure), but I think you missed the point on the protagonist of Tropic of Cancer. Miller did indeed indulge his muse for years, sinking to a sorry state in order to subsist, and he often begged for spare change. He once described the last time he begged; the man moved away from him as though he were diseased, and then flung the coins into the muck of the sewer with a sigh of disdain. Not only did HM never again beg after that, he made it his mission to find and repay everyone who'd ever sponsored him once he had achieved a measure of success. It could well be that the loathing you felt for the character was exactly what he wished to communicate...

Just finished it today. To me it made sense that Jude could never feel safe no matter how much anyone loved him. This book was brutal at times but, also incredibly beautiful. I loved the story about JBs photos turned into amazing art. This one will stay with me Loved your review, thanks

So is minority report a hardboiled?

I won't argue with you as you are entitled to your opinion but I find it staggering that people that look like they buy into the whole politically correct agenda that's being sold in universities I have such a problem with this book and yet I know tons of women I have many female friends who are extremely well-read who absolutely love Miller they may not think Tropic of Cancer is his best book but they like the book. Interesting. Perhaps not interesting at all but certainly worth a comment. I'm going to try to be fair and I'll check out some of your other videos hopefully you have something else to offer I don't believe you are right about Miller though but I'm not going to debate it on here

Would you consider reviewing The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty??

Whitney, why no more videos??

"The Cat Who.." Series are my favorite pet detective fiction.

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I write over-easy detective fiction. "Whodunnit?" "Him, he's guilty!" The end.

I liked the video, and this is the first of your videos I've watched, so maybe this isn't an issue in the others, but I found the "close up" perspective this was filmed in to be a bit jarring. I kept pulling my own head back, further away from the screen, because it felt akin to when someone is way too close to your face, while speaking. Anyhow - just something I experienced - I still enjoyed the video and the information presented. Keep up the good work.

Read about a quarter of the way last night for my Writing, Race, and Nation Using Faulkner course but needed some help in understanding themes- your video helped so much! Thank you 😊