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Wow!
The only other book I had read by Conrad before this book was Heart of Darkness. I found HOD's prose really thick and the metaphor and double meanings throughout the book overpowering. That didn't keep me from enjoying HOD, though.
Reading Lord Jim is pure pleasure. The prose is still thick, and the meaning still overwhelmingly deep, but since I read HOD in academic settings, in Lord Jim all the thickness is like delicious gooey candy. I can't read it quickly, both because of the style, but also because it would be like chugging a fine wine.
Oh, and when it is revealed what happened to the boat, I almost blew my coffee out my nose. Conrad did it so bluntly, the sly ol' boy.
The only other book I had read by Conrad before this book was Heart of Darkness. I found HOD's prose really thick and the metaphor and double meanings throughout the book overpowering. That didn't keep me from enjoying HOD, though.
Reading Lord Jim is pure pleasure. The prose is still thick, and the meaning still overwhelmingly deep, but since I read HOD in academic settings, in Lord Jim all the thickness is like delicious gooey candy. I can't read it quickly, both because of the style, but also because it would be like chugging a fine wine.
Oh, and when it is revealed what happened to the boat, I almost blew my coffee out my nose. Conrad did it so bluntly, the sly ol' boy.
