Reading Like a Writer A cliche is a cliche is a cliche. But cliches also contain bits of folk wisdom. And perhaps the greatest bit of folk wisdom for writers -- there are really only two ways to learn how to write: read (like a writer) and write. Reading like a writer can be difficult. It means ...
This is another one of those books that I read back at university for my English subject. In fact it was one of the last books that we studied, and I must have taken an interest in it because I noted that I had underlined a few sentences that I found intriguing (or at least relevant to the course). ...
20/11 - Oh dear! This is noted as being a 'difficult' book in the copious notes that preface the actual story. If 'high falutin' readers of literary literature consider it 'difficult' I'm pretty sure I'm going to have trouble.25 pages later and I'm still reading the notes, and I'm not even allowed t...
Evidently, this one is suppose to be brilliant, but I must have missed that. There were parts that I thought were written extremely well and parts that I thought the author was just throwing up a bunch of long impressive words together in hopes of creating a sentence. I like to try the “classics”, b...
I think this is first book that my dad has ever suggested to me that I did not also love. I won't say that it was bad, per say, just that it was so incredibly boring until Marlow finally met up with Mr. Kurtz (over 100 pages in) that I thought I would go crazy. Seriously, how does a 133 page book f...
I am probably one of a half-dozen people on the planet who have never seen "Apocalypse Now," the film based on this novella.While the book was okay, it just was not my cup of tea. An English tramp steamer captain named Marlow is hired to go into the Belgian Congo and bring out Kurtz, a station manag...
Heart of Darkness is one of those famous (or notorious) books that turn out to be very different from your preconceptions. As most of you probably know, Heart of Darkness is the story of Marlow, a sailor who journeys up the River Congo to the heart of Africa to rescue Kurtz, an ivory-raider who has ...
I listened to this as an audio book, and with quite some time in-between parts, so I probably missed out on part of the "experience" and therefore did not appreciate it as much as I could have.
Utter admiration for a man who taught himself English and became a world-renowned author, but he still writes like old-world Polish nobility taking long pauses before saying something profound about the crackers. I should try this one again, but the essays of Conrad aren't any more lucid.
For some reason this was not assigned reading when I was in school. That might be a good thing for some people but I was one of those strange kids that loved reading assignments even if it was something I would probably never pick on my own. I also find this surprising because this book is full of t...
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