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What does /lit/ think of Conrad's works other than Heart of Darkness?

>> No.18439418

>>18439406
All of them are good. He's the kind of writer who never quite wrote a bad book, just some better than others. Nostromo is my favorite. Reminder that if you get filtered by Heart of Darkness you don't belong in this board.

>> No.18439436

>>18439418
I just read Heart of Darkness and I enjoyed it a lot, so I got Lord Jim and Typhoon and other stories, I also think F. Scott Fitzgerald described Nostromo as the greatest book he's ever read so I'd like to check that one at some point too

>> No.18441027

>>18439418
>He's the kind of writer who never quite wrote a bad book
The Secret Agent really toes the line though

>> No.18441061

>>18439406
He sucks
>I cannot abide Conrad’s souvenir-shop style, bottled ships and shell necklaces of romanticist clichés.

>> No.18441068

>>18441061
Bugman take
>>18439418
He's my favorite author but Victory is not great

>> No.18441071

>>18441061
Your critique is two fucking words and you need to use Nabokov's critique to back yourself up? How much of an NPC are you?

>> No.18441077

>>18441071
My critique is Nabokov's critique. The right critique for this hack.

>> No.18441086

>>18441061
How come I can just intuitively tell when a negative quote is from Nabokov?

>> No.18441131

>>18441086
Nabokov quotes tend to have that 'wet diaper' kind of aura around them

>> No.18441138

>>18441086
Because he's not a good critic, he's just a poopy-pants, but pseuds think that whatever he says about a book is the 'smoking gun.'

>> No.18441734

>>18441086
Because he sounds like a resentful spinster.