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Nostromo gets top marks for being the book on my shelf that makes me feel the most guilty for not reading yet. Should I?

And also, let's talk about Conrad and why he's good.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I've read Heart of Darkness probably 3 times (possibly more), and each time I don't like it. It's too elusive like that blasted fog that contains the meaning.

The Secret Sharer is grebt though in that psychological suspense thriller sort of manner.

― Vitamin Leee (Leee), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Heart of Darkness is amazing. I can't remember a damn thing except that secrectary who seems devastated, which was the most subtle use of an unsubtle word I've ever read.

― Louise Brice, Monday, 29 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had Nostromo sitting on my shelf for years as well. Every few months I look at it and sigh. I recently read a collection of the short tales. Youth was my favorite--about a young sailors first voyage on a coal ship. Absolutely everything goes wrong, and he loves every minute of it.

― RJM (robmy), Monday, 5 April 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

funny - i've had 'Lord Jim' on my shelf for years. i felt like reading something rich and preferably written before the 1970s so i grabbed it a few days ago and the first 50 pages are really lovely.

― derrrick, Friday, 18 January 2008 07:19 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

The Secret Agent has some exquisite descriptions of London in it

― cardamon, Friday, 19 July 2013 04:29 (twelve years ago)

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