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Banned book week is vastly approaching! (September 24) how about a banned book challenge? For this week, post pictures of your favorite banned books to give others inspiration and ideas of what to read! This #ravenclaw challenges you! Please, comment what your favorite banned book is, so I can get some ideas #bannedbooks #bannedbookchallenge

Giving this a so-so. While I disliked most of it, and rage read good portions of it, the writing is brilliant and breathtaking at times and does represent a breakthrough in literary history. But it is also deeply misogynist and racist in a way that can't simply be written off as 'the times.' It's been compared to Whitman but to me it's the antithesis —so preoccupied with darkness, death and decay. Whitman inspires me. This is just depressing.

2.5 stars Have you ever known a twenty-something young man who arrogantly believes he knows everything about everything? This is 319 pages of that guy, mostly while he's drunk or high. It's just a whiny bigoted blog, albeit with moments of brilliance.

Longer review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1777545523

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I finally don't hate this book. Not that I love it, but I've settled into his odd cadence of non-story telling writing. Still struggling with his incredible bigoted nature though. Almost caught up too.

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😂😂😂This is probably my favorite part of this crazy book so far. Weirdly, I find it to be the most profound and the funniest bit I've read. Miller's unabashed embrace of the sh*t of life, both figurative and literal is pretty off-putting most of the time, but here it works! #TOC #TOCreadalong #bannedbookchallenge @Kathrin @BarbaraTheBibliophage @PurpleyPumpkin @gibblr @katedfisher

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We are well into week 2 of our slow read for the #ToCreadalong and I'm just getting started! In preparation for reading this banned book, I did a little research into the novel's background. I didn't realize, but this is an autobiographical novel, a story of sorts, about Henry Miller himself. Of the little I've read so far, he certainly led an interesting life! #TOC #bannedbookchallenge #bannedbookreadathon #bannedbookreading #TOCreadathon

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Finally caught up on the reading for this week. So far I have moments of admiration and the moments of desperation for the writing.

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It's been a long day (a long week, really), and I'm finally in bed with my book. Very much enjoying the #ToCreadalong. I've been taking some notes about various allusions and non-English words. Would anyone be interested in looking at them if I put them in some sort of Google doc or on my website? #TOC #bannedbookchallenge #bannedbookreadathon #bannedbookreading #ToCreadathon

The story is extremely confusing right now, but there are some real 💎 gems here. To be really honest, I find the crude statements almost hilarious which is probably witness to what we are exposed to these days.

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