Heart of Darkness

Oh what to say about the Heart of Darkness. I really didn’t enjoy this book that much, but it was not the worst book I have read, but not the best either. For the annotating in this book I did the text-to-author comparison, so pretty much looking at the authors writing style. This was a bad choice to look at the writing style of the author because to understand the writing style you have to know what the author is trying to say. And lets just say I did not always know what the author was trying to say which led me to not quite understanding the authors writing style. The one thing I did notice however would have to be the repeating of the same thing just in a different wa. Like he would say the sun was setting in one paragraph three different times and that was just a little annoying.
I think my problem with this book the most was that I didn’t understand the book completely and didn’t quite understand what the author was trying to say or what the big picture of the book was. Even with reading slow and annotating I still did not quite understand what exactly was going on, not to mention that everything happened really fast.
I would have to say the characters were interesting. Each one of the characters had a very distinct character trait which also I noticed in The Great Gatsby. I noticed Marlow is a very good storyteller and Kurtz has away to attract the people around him no matter what he does. I also noticed Conrad never really said the names of certain people in the book even though they played some role in the book. Like the Brick maker of the General Manager, he never says their name just leaves them as a general title. I wonder if he does this for a purpose?
So I surprised myself with what I had to say about this book even though I didn’t quite understand or even like it for that matter.