The Thief's Journal

I'd been intending to read this for awhile: one of my favourite films, Poison, is partially based on this novel. That, and a couple of different European friends recommended it. It's my kind of book: seamy queer life, attention to personal interactions, lots of self analysis. Even so, I had a tough time with this one, it was slow for me to make it through it. Maybe Genet doesn't work well in translation, but even factoring for that I had a hard time with the book's general rambling style. It was fun to read it so soon after coming back from visiting Spain, though.