What is Veeky Forums's opinion on Conrad?

What is Veeky Forums's opinion on Conrad?

My favorite writer desu. Lord Jim is 10/10

A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Certainly inferior to Hemingway and Wells. Intolerable souvenir-shop style, romanticist clichés. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Romantic in the large sense. Slightly bogus.

he racist lol

He's High tier stuff, not quite God tier but great writer worth reading

I wanna bite so bad.

Good, I only read race-aware writers

Any god tier recommendations?

I sincerely wish bad things happen to you.

Thanks for your opinion, Vladimir

Joyce, Pynchon, Wallace

Top kek.

Copying this for future use

Is this pasta?

It is now

Heart of Darkness is one of my few 5/5s

memes much?

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rather unpolished

Its memes all the way down

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>dont have to worry about prose because you know it will always be mediocre
>grind storytelling and become god mode

i see no problems

Dog bless :D

His name is god tier holy shit

It's a glib facsimile.

please no, corn father

underrated

>not recognizing Nabokov's critique

this place is a joke

>Nabokov

Who?

A formidable mediocrity. Fakes realism with easy platitudes and contrite coincidences.

i recognized it, i just consider it to be an opinion on par with your average Veeky Forums posters critic of [insert good thing here].

russians are trash

He did a lot for English prose, but he is overshadowed by Joyce. Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness are great. Not sure if I'll read another book of his, but you never know.

>all these newfags don't recognize the nabokov meme

>Carroll, Lewis. Have always been fond of him. One would like to have filmed his picnics. The greatest children's story writer of all time.

So he was Humbert after all.

Heart of Darkness was my first 'serious' book, and at first its difficulty made me hate it.

And yet, in the months that followed, I found my mind constantly wandering back to it, thinking about it, and I concluded that it must have been good, the struggle just dampened it.

It was much easier on a second read and I credit it as the reason I my tastes switched from Stephen King and modern fantasy to classics and more literary works.

Someone post the Dostoevsky quote

he's overshadow by master Joyce because he was immigrant and was s*ged for grammar errors

I read a bunch of his sea stories and enjoyed them, particularly The Nigger of the Narcissus, The Shadow Line, The Secret Sharer, Typhoon, Youth, and Victory. I had to read Heart of Darkness back in high school and was underwhelmed at the time.
The Secret Agent was kind of juvenile.

My faves are his early books set in Malaysia, Almayers Folly and Outcast of the Islands. Very vivid depictions of place and climate and the absurdity of Europeans attempting to control and rule so far from home
Either would have made a great Herzog/Kinski movie

Top tier stuff, a true master of ambiguity. 10/10.

Ambiguity?

His prose may be dense and mildy verbose, but once i became accustomed to his style it was anything BUT vague.

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But how about the bonus situation?

Sulaco is Conrad's too

I tried real hard to get into Nostromo. There were parts of it that gleamed out at me like sea glass, but it was missing something. Like an underspiced dish Conrad's style failed to bring out the interestingness of the medium he was working with. Even though I was totally sold on this fictional South American country and its crazy 18th century exploits, Conrad didn't seem excited about it himself.

This man, in my country he is everything.

its embarassing

So much greatness in every paragraph.

I habitually annoy my fiance with lord jim, heart of darkness, and chance quotes.

Chance quotes if I'm really trying to tease her. If you read it you know what i mean.

Unironically this. His prose is a shitty ctrv of the standard styles of the time. His contemporaries were far above him.