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Nostromo
Nostromo | Joseph Conrad
Nostromo (full title Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad. It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly. Conrad set his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the occidental region of the imaginary country of Costaguana. The book has more fully developed characters than any other of his novels, but two characters dominate the narrative: Señor Gould and the eponymous anti-hero, the "incorruptible" Nostromo.
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WriterAtHeart
Nostromo | Joseph Conrad
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Panpan

Just couldn't do it. I got incredibly bored and if I didn't have to read it for class, I would have DNFed it. Oh well, you can't win them all.

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Kurbis Junge
Nostromo | Joseph Conrad

Just started reading this book and I am thrilled by the language and description much more than the subject matter so far

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Panpan

A tremendously boring book that asks: is a man who is good for the sake of appearance really a good man? I do not recommend this at all.

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One day she flung herself upon the chair in which her indolent sister was lying and impressed the mark of her teeth at the base of the whitest neck in Sulaco. [...] "Madre de Dios! Are you going to eat me alive, Linda?"

My thoughts: What is this nonsense?

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My current bedside table books. I'm struggling to get through Nostromo so I'm going to pick up something different next i.e. not The Secret Agent.