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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Nostromo</em> was a difficult read for me. I started this book many years ago and gave up after the first 50 pages. This time I plowed through, and I'm glad I did. There's a lot of depth to this novel, but you don't see it until about halfway in.<br/><br/>The story takes place in a fictional South Amer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27211567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one's tough to review. I want to recommend it to everyone, but that's probably just a waste of a lot of time. I read this about ten years ago as a young college student, and just re-read it. Even while re-reading, the only things I remember are i) wondering to myself, if this book is called Nos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76944504">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The last time I read something by Joseph Conrad it was required reading in school. It was a short story, I think, but it was a long short story, the kind of short story that has parts instead of chapters. It rained a lot in the story. I think the teacher said that was symbolic of something. I also t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74069931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me want to throw it across the room, tear my hair out, and possibly burn it all at once.  The first little bit of the book is okay but then it just goes down hill until the end when it starts to make some sense.  Conrad plays with time in the book jumping from past to present to futur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70916558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First impressions after just having finished the book.  I think it's a very good book.  What stood out most for me was the quality of the writing.  I was impressed by this in a way I haven't been impressed in a while.  It is extremely dense.  There is always the conciousness of the multi-layered who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63653094">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It usually takes until the second reading for me to really get a Conrad novel, but I didn't feel that way with <em>Nostromo</em>.  Maybe because I saw a lot of similarities to <em>Lord Jim</em>, I only felt really at sea during Part I.  Once the action of the plot got going in Parts II and III, I kept up fine.  In re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42386295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Nostromo</strong> (1904) - Joseph Conrad<br/>My book club shared a read of <strong>The Red Tent</strong> by Anita Diamant and as it turned out i liked it more than probably most of those in club, or perhaps that's just more than what they wanted me to. At the end of our discussion  and in reaction i was asked to pick a <em>guy'...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36491211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading <em>Lord Jim</em> I looked forward to diving into <em>Nostromo</em> which, according to the introduction of my edition, is the best of Conrad's novels. And it's not hard to see why this book would be a darling of reviewers. With its sweeping scope that combines a rich cast of characters with history-in-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22428424">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nostromo is a weird, recursive baggy monster of a novel, but it's also brilliant. The plot, quickly, is the following: An American-backed silver mining company attempts to overthrow the government of an unstable Latin American country, and all hell breaks loose; the most honorable man in town, Nostr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1001510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[در هم ریختن زمان در روایت به ویلیام فالکتر نسبت داده می شود، و کمتر منتقدی در این مورد به جوزف کنراد اشاره کرده است که پیش از فالکنر، ابتدا در لرد جیم (اواخر قرن نوزده) ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just barely finished reading this book tonight and this book admittedly has to be one of the hardest books for me to complete.  The story is LONG meaning drawn out and is more of a character study than a book surrounding any specific series of events.  To its benefit the book does present some int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24991477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66370105">
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    <body><![CDATA[If Lean did in fact want to film Nostromo, it would have been a massive epic like Doctor Zhivago. If Robert Kaplan believes this masterpiece is a guide for Western soldiers, diplomats and aid workers operating in the Third World, I'll go one better and recommend it to every American cop, social work...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66370105">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49644254">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not going to finish this book. Maybe another time. I find Conrad's sentence structure to be clumsy and over-laden with descriptors. It's difficult to ascertain the meaning of one sentence even after reading it several times. I find myself asking over and and over again, &quot;and why is this sup...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49644254">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The one book to read about Latin America by an author who is not Latin.  Despite some awkward and turgid passages filled with Hispanic diction (Conrad seems to assume that everyone knows Spanish), the novel contains many gems of observation on the nature of life and love, such as: &quot;There is som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42015722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't finished this yet.  But I'm not currently reading it.  It's a long story.  I'm probably 200 pages in.<br/><br/>This is probably the most difficult book to read that I've ever wanted to keep reading.  Conrad's words are amazing - I just realize my own limitations when I say sometimes I ju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12253278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all-time favorites.  Had to read in it three days in college and was glued to it the entire time.  Takes place in a richly imagined fictional country of Costaguana and follows several complex characters through a political upheaval centered around the corrupting influence of a rich silver ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56324025">more...</a>]]></body>
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