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Originally Posted by mycroft
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I literally wanted the puke twenty pages into this book, but ended up throwing the book across the room in anger and storming out to buy some coffee. It is soooooo very badly written, it is horrendous. I couldn't continue reading. It reads like a high school paper by a half-literate idiot who has nothing to say. I don't understand how in the world is Conrad always hailed as the
Great Polyglotic Writer of Amazing Unadulterated Genius and next to nobody notices that Nabokov, for example, wrote fantastically well in Russian, French and English?!?!
And I really wanted to read The Secret Agent because apparently it was Unabomber's favourite book. Just goes to show you that the fellow had no taste in 'high' literature.
Marek, stay clear of Conrad!
