I have never seen Apocalypse Now, but I positively detested reading Heart of Darkness. *Makes note to avoid watching Apocalypse Now forever and until infinity comes to a screeching halt*
It's not THAT bad when you get past Conrad's writing style.
Firt time I read it I hated it when I was in HS.
Rereading it in college the first time was still painful, the second time was w.e I knew what was coming xD
Well, to me it's a bit similar to Moby *** in that the entire book is build-up to a catastrophic event. However, Moby *** actually had the catastrophic event. (I mean, the entire book was build up to the very last page, in which everyone dies in about two minutes. It wasn't
worth the build-up. But at least the book built up to
something.) But unlike Moby ***, Heart of Darkness builds up and up and up... and then ends. And it's darn boring build-up, too.
Getting to the end of that book was such a let-down for me. Here I was expecting something to happen, why would we suffer through all the dry, dull details otherwise? And then nothing happened. The End. ;;