Black Spring by Henry Miller

i feel soooo incredibly let down by this book. i've been stuck at the hundred page mark for the past couple of weeks and have been struggling to pick it up or even just look at it. i finished tropic of cancer weeks ago and LOVED it. my new favorite book by far, i think Miller's prose is beautiful and despite the obvious controversy surrounding his work... it's brilliant. i was very excited to start black spring especially after reading some reviews on it saying that it was even better than tropic of cancer, so maybe in my mind i raised the bar too high and that's why it's been so disappointing. maybe it's because it doesn't follow along with the same characters as toc i mean... i just miss Van Norden. i miss Carl. i miss their stupid friendship with Miller. will i be missing something if i skip over and jump into tropic of capricorn? will it live up to tropic of cancer? or am i just doomed forever?