false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1249838352m/117837.jpg 4900 207 <P> In this reprinting of the great Conrad classic, Green Integer presents his tale of white colonialism and the effects of the African world on European self-satisfaction. The tale of the search for Kurtz, who moves ever deeper into the jungles of the Congo as his madness progresses, is a brilliant symbolic tale, a great adventure story, and the subject of numerous films and commentary.</P> 2877220 book 1902 Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) total:26933|5:5787|4:7956|3:7231|2:3662|1:2297| 26933 92073 33394 1554 4 12 false false Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 23:55:55 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 23:03:32 -0700 2009 Heart of Darkness is one of those classics that you have to have read to consider yourself a well-educated adult. That's the bad news; the good news is that this is a very easy book to read -- tremendously shorter than Moby Dick, for instance. And the prose is easy t...more...]]> 1 11 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Jul 10 06:34:16 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 06:38:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 7 false false Fri Mar 20 05:02:08 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 02:40:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 21:34:44 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 12:59:26 -0700 2008
"Dynamite comes in small packages." My father counseled me. The literal and figurative truth of this statem...more...]]> 3 9 false false Thu Jan 10 06:28:34 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 07:00:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Tue Jan 08 14:18:59 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 14:22:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Dec 11 18:54:17 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 19:00:59 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Sep 25 18:09:41 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 08:36:19 -0700 2007
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While the psychological components of the book are riveting, the overt racism that much of it is based on is hard to swallow. ...more...]]> 1 9 false false Wed May 23 16:53:13 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 21:27:34 -0700 2007
am i supposed to feel sorry for him? because i don't. i feel sorry for all of Africa getting invaded with dum...more...]]> 2 4 false false Fri Apr 18 11:14:40 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 11:23:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Thu Aug 02 15:07:43 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 15:13:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 5 false false Mon Apr 09 10:45:57 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 10 20:55:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1969 Fri Feb 27 14:28:30 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 08:49:24 -0800 2009 5? 6? more...]]> 5 5 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 16:07:13 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 19:34:16 -0800 2009 3 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 15:03:58 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 15:45:19 -0700 2008
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the best part about re-reading these classics is that it makes you want to watch the movie adaptation, and oh, the HORROR, heart of darkness, novella that it is, lacks the details i desperately need in a tale ab...more...]]> 1 2 false false Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 20:40:25 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 14:47:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 20:54:32 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 22:23:21 -0800 2009
This is the first time I readConrad after hearing how much of a prose stylist he is and comparisons to Nabokov (something he himself denied with a characteristic quip, "I differ from Conradically"). He is most definitely a prose stylist of the first rank. But in this h...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=117837