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Rowena
Nov 04, 2011 rated it it was ok
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I just couldn't get into this one at all. ...more
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Russell Bittner
Sep 09, 2013 rated it did not like it
When I read Lord Jim a little over a year ago, I had a very difficult time connecting with it. But given that Joseph Conrad is generally considered to be one of the greatest novelists ever—and in any language (never mind that English was his third language!) — I resolved that the fault was mine, that the shortcoming was mine, and that I’d have to try again with at least one other of his works.

I just did — with Heart of Darkness. And came away from it no more enthralled than I did with Lord J ...more
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