Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad I've spoiler marked as best I…
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Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
I've spoiler marked as best I can here - hope it's OK.
I finished this a couple of weeks back. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it and how much it's stuck with me. Ive been thinking about it ever since.
It was dense and a slog at times - particularly the middle - but it was so, so worth it in the end.
The moment when >!Marlow says goodbye to Jim as he leaves for Patusan!< will always stick with me, I think. The prose and the weight of it, just everything - I think that was when I first realised what a master Joseph Conrad is.
I love the way Conrad writes it too - we never really get Jim's thoughts, all we get is this fragmented tale told by Marlow after the fact. It makes Jim seem like this enigmatic figure, and god I just loved it. I wanted to be in that room listening to Marlow tell me the whole tale.
I think what I took away most though is that the world doesn't end when we make a mistake - it doesn't have to define us, we can move on and reinvent and start over. Jim >!never lets the world break him down and never becomes bitter or angry - not like Brown who seems to be what Jim could have been if he'd gone down a different road.!<
I just found that really fucking inspiring. I'm rambling now but this was such a deeply human book underneath it all and I just loved it.
#entertainment
I've spoiler marked as best I can here - hope it's OK.
I finished this a couple of weeks back. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it and how much it's stuck with me. Ive been thinking about it ever since.
It was dense and a slog at times - particularly the middle - but it was so, so worth it in the end.
The moment when >!Marlow says goodbye to Jim as he leaves for Patusan!< will always stick with me, I think. The prose and the weight of it, just everything - I think that was when I first realised what a master Joseph Conrad is.
I love the way Conrad writes it too - we never really get Jim's thoughts, all we get is this fragmented tale told by Marlow after the fact. It makes Jim seem like this enigmatic figure, and god I just loved it. I wanted to be in that room listening to Marlow tell me the whole tale.
I think what I took away most though is that the world doesn't end when we make a mistake - it doesn't have to define us, we can move on and reinvent and start over. Jim >!never lets the world break him down and never becomes bitter or angry - not like Brown who seems to be what Jim could have been if he'd gone down a different road.!<
I just found that really fucking inspiring. I'm rambling now but this was such a deeply human book underneath it all and I just loved it.
#entertainment
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