As a native English speaker with high expertise in English, that shit was hard. It took me 3.5 attempts to finish it even though it’s less than 100 pages. But that’s the point. It’s an experience I’ve never had in a book. It was hard at the start, but eventually the strange, dense language became a blur, I was beginning to see the imagery between the words, and a movie started playing in my head. I was on the river with Marlow, and I experienced this otherworldly continent. For lack of a better metaphor, I unearthed the heart of darkness within me. The shocking, bizarre acts that shocked me at the beginning of the story were part and parcel by the end. Why would a fleet ship bombard the coastline at random? Just go there and you’ll understand. My morals had changed alongside Marlow’s.
If you can stick with it, pick it up after dropping it out of confusion, and get through the end, you’ll experience it. Maybe. You’ll be a better reader at the least. It’s fucking hard.
As a native English speaker with high expertise in English, that shit was hard. It took me 3.5 attempts to finish it even though it’s less than 100 pages. But that’s the point. It’s an experience I’ve never had in a book. It was hard at the start, but eventually the strange, dense language became a blur, I was beginning to see the imagery between the words, and a movie started playing in my head. I was on the river with Marlow, and I experienced this otherworldly continent. For lack of a better metaphor, I unearthed the heart of darkness within me. The shocking, bizarre acts that shocked me at the beginning of the story were part and parcel by the end. Why would a fleet ship bombard the coastline at random? Just go there and you’ll understand. My morals had changed alongside Marlow’s.
If you can stick with it, pick it up after dropping it out of confusion, and get through the end, you’ll experience it. Maybe. You’ll be a better reader at the least. It’s fucking hard.