After getting used to the writing style, I loved this book. Its prose is amongst the most beautiful and complex that I've ever encountered, and the story itself is very dark and compelling (once you figure out what's happening). The narrator goes about trying to tell a story and describe something t...
Heart of Darkness is a famous classic that is referenced every time I turn around. And, as such, I supposed I should read it just to get the in-jokes. But I'm not terribly impressed. I'm convinced that Conrad must have been paid by the comma since he puts them in so willy nilly. I'm also surprised a...
First of all. I didn't like the narration: Some unknown narrator was narrating someone's first person account about some uninteresting character. The rhythm of the story was so damn slow. It was full of descriptions and observations and there was very little action. The whole story was about some Mr...
Reserving judgement on this book as of now. Either I don't seem to have understood it enough, or I have some problem with Conrad's 'mysterious' and 'incomplete' way of describing things.
Update 9/21/12I'll be honest, I didn't give Conrad the credit he deserves when I first read this book. He is a good writer, however when I read this the first time I was annoyed that we were reading about a blatant colonial story and how we read it through the Freudian lens (you know the ego, super-...
I think I just didn't get this... Why are all classics both depressing and on this side of boring... And the paragraphs Would. Not. End. Every time I read a "darkness" reference I wanted to roll my eyes.
I had to stop reading half way through this book, take a mosquito racket and zap myself with it just to remind myself I was alive. I have never been so irritatingly bored while reading a book as much as I was reading/listening to Heart of Darkness.(In fairness, I was on a road trip listening to the...
Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" is a truly compelling study of European colonization and exploitation of Africa, and the evils it imbued in those who partook in those exploits. "Heart of Darkness" is a frame story (or, a "story withing a story"). The frame is of a group of men on a boat travelling down...
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