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Summary: "The horror, the horror!"
Review: This book is a horrible collection of excess verbiage and meaningless slime I have ever read. The book is extremely suicidial in nature and implies that human nature is purely evil and the best thing that can happen is for us to look over the edge, discover, "the horror, the horror" that is life, and die. My, isn't that inspiring and uplifting? The 'depth' of this book is discovered only as one looks for depth in a pond and mistakes the reflection as depth. This book is a thin veneer covering a lack of creativity due to Conrad using up all his good material in earlier writings. This book should not be combined with alcohol or other depressants. Scratch that, this book should not be combined with breathing humans. Let this book lie with its subject, dead. Go read Fahreheit 451 or some other book that actually covers a deeper subject.
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Summary: An INCREDIBLE novel
Review: This is the most amazing novel. Conrad is a genius of character and symbolism. I didn't look forward to having to read this book, but I'll never regret having read it. At first I had trouble understanding the plot, but I bought the CliffsNotes for it, and that helped. It is such a complex novel, I know I'll read it again and again. It is definitely not Sunday afternoon during-commercial-breaks type of reading, but if you want to read a book that makes you think about humans in a totally new way, then this is the book for you.
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Summary: Do yourself a favor---get a better edition
Review: Love the novel, but hate this edition. The critical essays in the back are of the worst sort--the "Reader-Response" essay is filled with so much opaque, sludge-like prose so as to make it virtually unreadable, and the feminist (!) criticism of the book is abosolutely ridiculous, facile, and well...just plain bad. The rest of the essays are of the same low-caliber. Read the novel by all means, but do yourself a favor and get a different edition.
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Summary: The Bomb
Review: This book is excellent. Conrad is a master of metaphor, and Kurtz is very scary. Read this then watch Apocalypse Now. It is really interesting.
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Summary: This is a brillint and Modernist work.
Review: This is a brilliant, influential, and engaging Modernist work--a masterpiece that deserves to be read again and again. But beware: Conrad's sophisticated narrative techniques can leave the inexperienced and unenlighted reader in confussion and darkness.
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Summary: Conrad was as sick as his story was dismal.
Review: Anyone considering this a classic needs a support group
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Summary: Surrender to the Conrad side of the Force
Review: All you have to do to enter the altered state of consciousness in which Conrad's mastery can nourish your mind and heart and soul is to shut up, sit down, and listen to the man talk. Conrad is surely one of the top ten masters of the narrative form in English for all time. If you can get away from your own ego for long enough to listen to his voice you will see things and learn things you cannot otherwise imagine . . . and you will get away from your own ego, which is a positive good in itself.Please read Conrad. Never stop reading Conrad. If I believed that I could write one work like Heart of Darkness I would believe my entire existance justified by that alone.
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Summary: The reviews are fascinating because...
Review: Has anyone else noticed that the reviews written by the people who hated the book are rife with grammar errors or written in simplistic, almost childish style? This correlation caused me to wonder if the readers who appreciate language enough to master expression are the only ones who can appreciate the book. It is simple on its surface and layered with so many levels of complexity that perhaps it should not surprise the reader who loved it that the ones who hated it are actually incapable of understanding it. That may explain their hostility. The irony exists in the fact that that is one of the themes of the book.
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Summary: AP student who actually loved this book
Review: Honestly any AP or IB student reading this book should not be in that class if they can't appreciate this novel. The detail alone makes this book an excellent read. Plus at the same time the novel is loaded with sarcasm, imagery, allusion you name it and it is here. You can literally pick any page from this novel and find at least enough information to discuss it for a half an hour. Anyone who did not like this novel should read it again or simply avoid books and stay with Television.
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Summary: Great book...
Review: ..." Its queer (strange) how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own,and there had never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before sunset."- Joseph Conrad. -Is this guy Conrad the balls or what ?...Hillary Clinton should have had him in her Village ! Great book .... Great author..... Good luck. Read slowly and savor !
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