Heart of Darkness

Hello, Veeky Forums.
I recently discovered Conrad and he's seemed to be an interesting writer to me. Yet I've seen some really negative opinions on him here.
Could you explain why?
Especially this book.

Reading it feels like trudging through molasses.

Could you elaborate?

An intriguing build up to a disappointing ending the novel.

This somehow was shocking to people at the time and I have no idea why.

A lot of people get forced to read it in school, which inevitably leaves to a backlash of contrarianism against it.

It's not the most amazing book in the world, but people give it too much stick. Conrad was ahead of his time in the themes he explored in it, and the character of Kurtz is one of the most compelling and unique every written.

Wow, it's really surprising to know that people read it in school, given that it's written by a non-English writer.

It was written in English.

Also, Nabokov.

Great book for building vocab. Kind of embarrassing a dude writing in his 3rd language has better English than me

It sucks.

I meant that he wasn't a native spearker.
That's quite motivating for though. He started communicating with British only in his twenties and was able to become a classical writer.