Typhoon (Audio Editions Mystery Masters) (Unexpurgated Start Classics) (Heritage of Literature S.) (Top 100 Classic Novels - Joseph Conrad) (Penguin Little Black Classics) (L.Y.T. S.)

Item: Typhoon
Rating: 2.00
Author: brokentune

by Joseph Conrad

This volume contains "Typhoon," "The Secret Sharer," "Falk," and "Amy Foster."

Reviewed by brokentune on Feb 21, 2014

2 of 5 stars

" 'There are things you find nothing about in books.' I think that he got out of it very well for such a stupid man."

Meh. I'm not sure why I'm so underwhelmed by this story - it had all the elements of a good tale: interesting characters, a setting at sea, dramatic descriptions of human fate pitted against nature, and Conrad's typical understated irony.

And yet,...

Full review posted on BookLikes:
http://brokentune.booklikes.com/post/796531/typhoon

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