El agente secreto IV (The Secret Agent IV) Audiobook (Unabridged)

" You couldn't find a more ironically detached narrator than in this book. A precursor of things to come. "

" Completely different than I expected, but interesting on a completely different plane. "

" Not your average spy novel, this goes into the spy's life and the people around him, and continues on well after he is found out. The action for which he is ultimately caught is fairly trivial compared to what happens in blockbuster spy novels & movies these days, and it doesn't even work out properly. It seems less like professional spies and more like everyday people playing spy, but this was also 100 years ago, so maybe that's how it was, I don't know. Definitely an entertaining read, where very little goes well for anyone, but that's OK as almost none of the characters are ultimately likable. "

" I just couldn't make it through this book. "

" This is an excellent & fascinating book. Conrad outdoes himself and probably produces a better book than he did in Nostromo. But I love Nostromo, I respect The Secret Agent. "

" Mix the world's first spy/terrorism novel with Conrad's incredible command of language and you have a well-paced, engaging and deeply philosophical novel. A very good read. "

" I stopped reading after plowing through the first 45 pages. "

" conrad has done much, much better, in my personal opinion. but i should probably re-read this one. i think i liked "the secret sharer," the novella often printed along with "the secret agent" better. "

" A postmodernist half a century before postmodernism existed. "

" Read for Novel class, fall 2009. Bo-ring. *ducks* "

" Chapter 12 is an absolutely glorious 5 star 32 pages of story/prose. "

" I find Conrad a bit too thick and dense for me. Despite this, for the moments involving Stevie, I was able to work past the density and get into the story, but overall found the story a bit difficult to get into. "

" This is one of the densest books I have ever read. I suspect that the full impact of this book on me will not be immediately evident, but it is a work most unlike any other I had read. This was truly stimulating for the mind. "

" What can I say? The man knows how to write intelligently. I was just impressed I understood most of the big words in this thing. "

" not as good as Heart, but the writing style is still excellent "

" In true Conrad fashion, the plot is very slow in developing so that when the horror comes you are surprised. Enjoy the character development in this story of greed and dissimulation. "

" Hugely atmospheric and way before its time. "

" Before John le Carre and Ian Fleming, spies and agents were a pretty unglamorous bunch. The first half is more a who-got-offed than whodunit, and Mrs. Verloc gradually takes over as a warm, human character beneath the politics. "

" Mix the world's first spy/terrorism novel with Conrad's incredible command of language and you have a well-paced, engaging and deeply philosophical novel. A very good read. "

" Conrad was writing about Terrorism long before 9/11. Someone should make an Apocalypse now of this book. "

" Good book, Hitchcock stole a scene from it. I guess one thing I don't get is, why do people decide to kill shit after reading it? It's not that kind of book, I don't think. "

" What a bleak view of humanity - a very depressing book, though well worth the read due to the characterizations and story-line. "

" Perhaps I was not yet a sophisticated reader to appreciate this book properly when I read it, but until I reread it, I can only say that I remember it as the weakest of the books by Conrad that I have read. "