https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/colonial_critique/ Recent content in Colonial_critique on George's Blog Hugo en-US Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/heart-of-darkness/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:31:39 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/heart-of-darkness/ <p>I had heard this book mentioned a couple times and so I had it on my list for a month or so and finished it in one sitting. Very entertaining, the mood was very tense. It reminded me a little of Lovecraft&rsquo;s style. The story follows a captain of a steamboat for an ivory trading company that goes up a mysterious river in Africa. The plot started to feel familiar to me about halfway through. Turns out it inspired the movie Apocalypse Now which I had just seen for the first time less than a week prior, one of those rando coincidences. So, there are many similar themes between that movie and this book. Here are some notable quotes to summarize the feeling:</p>