by Alex Struik, Joseph Conrad
I do love Conrad and this book is one of the best up until the last few pages where the climax is both hurried and does not really work. The slow boil that happens in the rest of the work is fantastic. There is brilliant character building and Conrad takes a very informed walk through a few kinds ...
This novel from the beginning of the 20th century is not very engaging: it's the story of a Swede called Heyst living on his own on a island in South-East Asia who encounters a miserable young lady at a hotel on a neighbouring island. He steals her away from Stromberg, the lascivious and vindictive ...
bookshelves: published-1915, seven-seas, spring-2014, classic, fraudio, indonesia, psychology, adventure, bullies, casual-violence, gangsters, lifestyles-deathstyles, recreational-homicide, revenge, suicide, tragedy Read from March 13 to April 09, 2014 Narrated by George Guidell. Sometimes known...
Like Nostromo, the pacing of this is slowish in the first half and picks up in the second half. Unlike Nostromo there is much less back-story in this novel. While the father of the main character is discussed and is important although dead, most of the rest of the characters have a history only wi...
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