Henry Miller

         






When a person reads Henry Miller, they are drawn into a world
where personality and desire clash directly with social
acceptance and morality.  You are privy to his innermost
thoughts, you see the world through his eyes, and you come
away having lived a different life in the span of a couple
hundred pages.  He does not so much tell a story as invite
you to live.  His words are power, he uses images and concepts
to awake the reader, to jolt the reader, and to encourage 
the reader.  The resulting effect is to be forever changed
by the words, which is the mark of a true writer.  He invites
you, through his style and his passion, to join him in the
act of writing, to through off the preconcived notions of
what a writer should be, and take up a pen, throw ink at
a page, and revel in the act of writing itself.  Because
of his passion, because of his power, he becomes a mentor
to a struggling writer, merely through the baring of his
own soul.  I also recommend the movie Henry & June.

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