Just started reading Heart of Darkness, what does everyone

>>9474070
I didn't even finish it. Pretty boring.

Slog, probably ruined by english teacher, will reread eventually.
Movie is better.

>>9474086
I love Apocalypse Now so much. I don't care if I get shat on for it, but I really think it's a stronger work of art.

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You won't understand it unless you've read this guy first.

>>9474070
Probably my favorite book. It's an absolute masterpiece.

Like it.
Also, the Orson Welles radio play is excellent (mp3 online anons)

>>9474086
This happened to me. High school english ruined it for me. Came back to it in my 30's and saw it in a whole new light.

>>9474070
I'm a huge fan of Conrad but it didn't mean much to me, maybe because I heard the story a ton of times already in different forms.

Nigger of the Narcissus is way better

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>I'm a huge fan of Conrad but it didn't mean much to me, maybe because I heard the story a ton of times already in different forms.

>Nigger of the Narcissus is way better

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>>9475810
>its edgy to prefer the less edgy book

>>9475810
I know they're far from the same but I just wonder if it would have the same impact on me as for others if Apocalypse Now wasn't already one of my favourite films

Heart of Darkness is one of the most important books of the early Literary Modernist period and indeed the canon as a whole.
It's an excellent example of the way in which perceptions of Africa grounded in Orientalism are used to explore the dichotomous concepts of the Apollonian and Dionysian.
Chinua Achebe was never more wrong than when he said it was a racist book.

Also anybody in here that likes HoD or Apocalypse Now owes it to themselves to watch Herzog's Aguirre

>>9474086
this.

>what does everyone think of it?
The horror

>>9474070

>reading Heart of Darkness
>not playing Victoria 2: Heart of Darkness

My third favourite book of all time.

>>9474070

I enjoyed, feel's a little anti-climatic though. It's only a handful of pages long, so blink and you'll miss it.