In college I had to read The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad twice. And write a paper on it both times. I hated the novella. Hated. It. I wrote the first paper for an introduction to literary criticism class, and for the school of criticism that I chose I could pretty much write about how I got nothing out of the story and why I got nothing out of it, and that's what I wrote about. Now I had to read The Secret Sharer for a graduate class for library school--just when I thought I would never, ever have to read another Joseph Conrad anything ever again. So that's just a little background for this review for The Secret Sharer also written by Joseph Conrad. I didn't hate The Secret Sharer as much I came to hate The Heart of Darkness , but that's not really an endorsement either. In The Secret Sharer the unnamed narrator has been recently appointed to command a ship, but he doesn't know why (seriously?), and he doesn't know the crew, and ...
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