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How about Nostromo by Joseph Conrad -- more on the Moby Dick level than just a seagoing adventure level. ... by John Fowles (a favourite mainstream author) in three days, and thoroughly enjoyed it. But Joseph Conrad's Nostromo was hard work. And The Garden Party I finished more out of a sense of duty than because I was enjoying it. I'll keep up with the plan, although I don't hold out ... ... Darkness is one of the most prescient tales I've ever read. End of the Tether, Youth, Almayer's Folly, Lord Jim, Nostromo. . . the list just goes on and on: all books I've read more than once.
I as always against quitting a book. I had a thing about always finishing it no matter what. Then I decided to read Nostromo. Wow what a brick! I tried and tried but eventually realized it just wasn't worth it to me to finish it out. I'm a big fan of Conrad, but that one . . . uh.
As for 2 ... Decided to have a rest from Joseph Conrad's Nostromo - it was getting a bit dull. Read a short story collection by J.G. Ballard called The Venus Hunters, which was a bit of a mixed bag. 'Passage to Eternity' was embarrassing. Now reading Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham. It's ... ... into what it might have been like to venture into a completely foreign and unknown land was completely worth it.
Nostromo, on the other hand, I haven't quite managed to get into yet. I've tried a couple of time and will defeat it one of these days. I did read Lord Jim, which I ... ... hating Heart of Darkness. I'm with you Perkin, I liked it. I thought it was fairly accessible. I even tolerated Nostromo, which got off to a real, slow, start. Conrad is not easy. ... hating Heart of Darkness. I'm with you Perkin, I liked it. I thought it was fairly accessible. I even tolerated Nostromo, which got off to a real, slow, start. Conrad is not easy. Heart of Darkness is actually one of my absolute favorite novels. However, Nostromo is definitely on my most hated list. Wow, setting up a story and giving background is one thing, but Conrad went more than a little overboard. It felt like I was reading an encyclopedia written with the ... ... passed since reading it, I have realized more how good of a book it was. Sometimes it takes a while to sink in. As for Nostromo, I'm afraid I haven't picked it up in a while.
29. The African Queen - C.S. Forester (Finished May 27) 307 pgs
This was a quick but highly enjoyable read. ... ... Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Life on the Mississippi
The Education of Henry Adams
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Nostromo and Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth
Kokoro
Works by Robert Frost
Stories by Chekov and Lu Hsun
Zuleika Do ... ... through the text, and are obvious on a second reading. Or you could read Pale Fire! Also, I had a lot of trouble with Nostromo too - the first 3/4 (all the exposition) really drag. Good luck with that! So far, I've read Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. I just couldn't get into them, and Nostromo made me want to beat my head against a wall until the last 100 pages or so (when things start to happen). I recognize his ability as a writer - I suppose I just didn't much like his ... I'm in the second movement of Dance to the Music of Time. I'm also reading Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor and Fear of Flying by Erica Jong.
Last week I finished The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll. It was just ... 14 Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
I am very much looking forward to getting all the Conrad out of the way on the lists I'm working through. The last 100 or so pages of Nostromo were exciting. The first 300? Not so much. ... Fraser
(and even though I know this thread isn't about this, my least favorite for the quarter is a toss-up between Nostromo and The Adventures of Augie March.
I've read "our man" that is, Nostromo. As I recall, it was a tough go the first 100 pages or more, before the plot started up. Hmm, Volcano, Nostromo --Who's read Orlando? (yay, I get to play!)
I've read Under the Volcano.
How about Nostromo? I kinda liked Nostromo, after the first 150 pages or so, of course. Currently trying to hack my way through Nostromo by Conrad. A serious chore as I just can't seem to find anything interesting about it. Has anyone seen the made for TV movie of Nostromo? It was't too bad. I had to read it for a college class several years earlier & I said in my essay on it that it had all the ingredients for a soap opera. The movie version trimmed it down quite a bit which helped to make it better than the ... Heart of Darkness is great. Nostromo is a real stinker, though. ... To Arms - Ernest Hemingway (Finished Jan 19) 332 pgs
Completely and thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Now onto:
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad Nostromo
Aguirre: The Recreation of a Sixteenth Century Journey Across South America
Bush Pilot in Diamond Country
The Jungle Law
Startling Jungle ... of Time by Anthony Powell
32. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
34. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
35. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
36. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
37. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
38. Portnoy's Complain ... ... it. On my last try I got within 100 pages of the end, a new record, and I still abandoned it. God, I hate that book. And Nostromo was also a no-go over the course of several years. I also hated Moby Dick in high school; it's become an American tradition to hate the book, I think. Since then, ... ... Idiot, The Magic Mountain, The Vivisector, Voss, Les Miserables, The Glass Bead Game, Beowulf, Don Quixote, Nostromo, The Tale of Genji and Piers Ploughman. A comprehensive lack of interest in some of the greatest works of art ever.
As for Moby Dick - once bitten, twice ... ... I finally got through Middlemarch. It could win a special award for top ten tedious books. I decided to spare myself Nostromo and Magister Ludi after 6 or 7 runs at each. The next step would have been self flagellation. Actually, I've never been able to get through Nostromo, after several starts. And I mostly like Conrad. My favorite isThe Secret Agent, a perfect and perfectly chilling meditation on the relationship between the personal and the political, via an anarchist agent instructed to plant a bomb in ... Heart of Darkness
Nostromo
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
Tom Jones
Jitterbug Perfume
The Bible
Giles Goat-Boy
Atlas Shrugged
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