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A dark journey into the hearts and minds of agents and anarchists.
First, I might be rating this wrong. It might be only 4 stars, but I'm pretty sure this is a very memorable read and have bumped it accordingly.
I love Conrad's writing style. There was so much packed into each sentence and paragraph.
I love Conrad's writing style. There was so much packed into each sentence and paragraph.
And a peculiarly London sun--against which nothing could be said except that it looked bloodshot--glorified all this by its stare. It hung at a moderate elevation above Hyde Park Corner with an air of punctual and benign vigilance. The very pavement under Mr. Verloc...more
Sep 01, 2012
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At the moment I try to read as much book off my shelves as I can and only supplement those with books that are public domain, so I can get them free as audiobook from LibriVox or as ebook. That made The Secret Agent the obvious choice for me when deciding which group read to read. They even had an audiobook of it at LibriVox. When I downloaded that I noticed that this was the first audiobook produced by LibriVox. One also notices this by listening, because there are still some stumbles of the na
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After three false starts, I finally found myself able to immerse myself in this tale. Once I got through the first two chapters, I found my interest piqued and lost myself in a well crafted story.
Apr 29, 2011
Selvan
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Susan
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