>80 pages.
How hard could it be?
haha you said 'hard'
What is this book and should I even bother?
>>7858079
Short but def longer than 80 pages OP.
>>7858079
96 actually
>>7858079
>>7858177
Get your facts straight children
>>7858228
is it worth reading the gargantuous amount?
why don't you read instead of shitposting if it's so short?
>>7858228
>last words are just the title
absolutely disgusting
>>7858247
maybe the title are the last words
>third person narrator talking about a character telling a story in first person
Literally why
>>7858079
Did any of you guys read Conrad's The End of the Tether?
This shit is so boring I don't think I'll be able to finish it
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth.
The Director of Companies was our captain and our host. We four affectionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to seaward. On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical. He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified. It was difficult to realize his work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him, within the brooding gloom.
Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea. Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns—and even convictions. The Lawyer—the best of old fellows—had, because of his many years and many virtues, the only cushion on deck, and was lying on the only rug. The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones. Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzen-mast. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and, with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol. The director, satisfied the anchor had good hold, made his way aft and sat down amongst us. We exchanged a few words lazily. Afterwards there was silence on board the yacht. For some reason or other we did not begin that game of dominoes. We felt meditative, and fit for nothing but placid staring. The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance. The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds. Only the gloom to the west, brooding over the upper reaches, became more sombre every minute, as if angered by the approach of the sun.
>>7858079
I just went on a 25 page reading marathon
you think I can handle it?
>>7858100
bit late but if you chance on reading this
It's the novella Apocalypse now was based off of, but instead of Vietnam war, it's about the scramble for Africa.
ye you should read it, it's fucking brilliant and the movie's just as great.
It's worth reading. I like it.
>>7858471
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Don't let this meme die
Read 4 Conrad novels and even now I fail to get what it is all about this guy fame as a novelist. Seriously, I don't get him. Absolutely boring.
Still, every book should be read once.
>>7858922
Aguirre was also inspired by this and it's a hundred times better than Apocalypse Now
