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bikesandbooks_goat 's review for:
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Rating: 3.5 stars and pushing 4 when it does not push closer to 3. Oh these damn stars! O.K. I'll give it more stars, WTH?! My sense was the book dragged on in parts but this is probably due more to my lack of familiarity with stylistic differences with the writing of the time, i.e. the age of the work.
Note to self: Wow. How amazingly current is the author's description of some aspects of prevalent leadership traits and organizational behaviors? (I guess that makes the book sound boring.) So, yeah, it was a good read for the story alone. I like how Conrad's descriptions touch on some rather universal, it would appear, human characteristics. The farther up river he goes, Cap'n Willard's first person narration amps up the spooky and delivers a palpable sense of adventure and menace. (The Horror! The Horror!)
In other News: Kinda fascinating in that this book is a partial influence on the film, _Apocalypse Now_. Interesting to consider how the book does and does not coincide with the film. Impossible to shake out of my head the image of Brando as Kurtz. I love that this book is free to read on an e-reader due to the age of and expiration of the copyright. And I love it even more that I work in a library where freely loaned physical books are so very easy to come by.
Note to self: Wow. How amazingly current is the author's description of some aspects of prevalent leadership traits and organizational behaviors? (I guess that makes the book sound boring.) So, yeah, it was a good read for the story alone. I like how Conrad's descriptions touch on some rather universal, it would appear, human characteristics. The farther up river he goes, Cap'n Willard's first person narration amps up the spooky and delivers a palpable sense of adventure and menace. (The Horror! The Horror!)
In other News: Kinda fascinating in that this book is a partial influence on the film, _Apocalypse Now_. Interesting to consider how the book does and does not coincide with the film. Impossible to shake out of my head the image of Brando as Kurtz. I love that this book is free to read on an e-reader due to the age of and expiration of the copyright. And I love it even more that I work in a library where freely loaned physical books are so very easy to come by.