Before reading this book I had just read Conrad's Outcast of the Islands. Which was really quite good...this book was horrible and yet gets all the praise? This book confirms my belief that most authors should retire at a certain point. Even more so that the world is full of pseudo-intellectuals who see "depth" in anything abstruse that we dummies can't appreciate. Conrad must have have had too much praise go to his head or alcohol or something. The story is hard to read you draw nothing deep from it, it has none of the beautiful nature descriptions his earlier books had. He must have needed rent money or tried some avant garde thing while drug addled. How utterly unbelievable that this book is famous. Thank God it was short.Get more detail about Heart of Darkness.
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