I recently picked up Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer upon the recommendation of my boyfriend and began reading it without realizing it's written in a stream of consciousness (henceforward to be shortened to SoC) style.
I have to admit, I was a little taken aback by it. I'm not a huge fan of the SoC style of writing. It tends to bother me when the narrative (well, what little narrative structure there is) jumps around. It also bothers me when I find myself unable to understand something because of the vague SoC style... Despite this, I really love the lyrical quality of the prose. It can be quite beautiful. Maybe I just need to relax about not literally understanding everything that's going on.
So what say you? Yay or Nay to the SoC style? Are there different books with varying degrees of SoC, some that you can stand to read and some that you can't? I'm still trying to make my way through Tropic... We'll see how it goes...