Typhoon, with eBook Audiobook

" Good fast read, must for anyone who enjoy a good under the sea tale. "

" Great story - very well done for a very limited plotline! "

" Good read. Easy read, although Old English difficult to follow at times. Great parallels and symbolism to the corporate world. "

" Very intense, great read! Not very long too. "

" Good read. Easy read, although Old English difficult to follow at times. Great parallels and symbolism to the corporate world. "

" J'ai failli y rester, dans le cahos. Passionnant. "

" Great story - very well done for a very limited plotline! "

" If you've only read Heart of Darkness, you probably don't know what a fantastic sense of humor Conrad has. Typhoon is short and thrilling and funny. The plot is persistently engaging, but Conrad's real aim is to show you how his characters react under the stresses of their world. "

" J'ai failli y rester, dans le cahos. Passionnant. "

" Very good adventure tale. "

" A great tale of the ocean and of human frailty. You will be dumping the sea water out of your chair. "

" Don't read this in stormy weather. Or high winds. Or near an ocean. Or a sink. "

" Great story - very well done for a very limited plotline! "

" Oh, my! One of the greatest, if not "the" greatest, ever written. Conrad must have experienced something similar or he could not have written it with such descriptions! I do like sea stories and I loved this one. (It's short but every word, as usual with Conrad, packed a punch!) "

" Great writing as usual. I love his style and word pictures. A short, but exciting tale. "

" Good fast read, must for anyone who enjoy a good under the sea tale. "

" The tale of Captain Macwhirr of the Nan-Shan who, whilst returning Chinese workers home notices unusual barometric readings but refuses to change course believing his ship could withstand any natural opposition. Throughout the disaster he is ably assisted by his first mate Jukes. "

" Good fast read, must for anyone who enjoy a good under the sea tale. "

" Very good adventure tale. "

" Oh, my! One of the greatest, if not "the" greatest, ever written. Conrad must have experienced something similar or he could not have written it with such descriptions! I do like sea stories and I loved this one. (It's short but every word, as usual with Conrad, packed a punch!) "

" Possibly a metaphor for the self-imposed rule of society as a ship tossed about in a turbulent and unwelcoming universe where men fight to preserve order or squabble over trivialities. Or maybe it is just a story about dumb luck and being almost crushed by a storm. "

" A great tale of the ocean and of human frailty. You will be dumping the sea water out of your chair. "

" Don't read this in stormy weather. Or high winds. Or near an ocean. Or a sink. "

" Very intense, great read! Not very long too. "

" J'ai failli y rester, dans le cahos. Passionnant. "

" The tale of Captain Macwhirr of the Nan-Shan who, whilst returning Chinese workers home notices unusual barometric readings but refuses to change course believing his ship could withstand any natural opposition. Throughout the disaster he is ably assisted by his first mate Jukes. "

" Very intense, great read! Not very long too. "

" Don't read this in stormy weather. Or high winds. Or near an ocean. Or a sink. "

" If you've only read Heart of Darkness, you probably don't know what a fantastic sense of humor Conrad has. Typhoon is short and thrilling and funny. The plot is persistently engaging, but Conrad's real aim is to show you how his characters react under the stresses of their world. "

" Possibly a metaphor for the self-imposed rule of society as a ship tossed about in a turbulent and unwelcoming universe where men fight to preserve order or squabble over trivialities. Or maybe it is just a story about dumb luck and being almost crushed by a storm. "

" Possibly a metaphor for the self-imposed rule of society as a ship tossed about in a turbulent and unwelcoming universe where men fight to preserve order or squabble over trivialities. Or maybe it is just a story about dumb luck and being almost crushed by a storm. "

" The tale of Captain Macwhirr of the Nan-Shan who, whilst returning Chinese workers home notices unusual barometric readings but refuses to change course believing his ship could withstand any natural opposition. Throughout the disaster he is ably assisted by his first mate Jukes. "

" If you've only read Heart of Darkness, you probably don't know what a fantastic sense of humor Conrad has. Typhoon is short and thrilling and funny. The plot is persistently engaging, but Conrad's real aim is to show you how his characters react under the stresses of their world. "

" This book was a real challenge for me. Book group wanted to read a classic and someone picked this. "

" I read this as part of my Advanced Placement English class during my senior year at Roy High School. This book had a lot of symbolism. Everything there was meant to be "dark." I still remember it after 40 years. It kinda gave me a creepy feeling. "

" One of my favorite books due to the contemplative nature of the narrative and its dialogue concerning the human experience. "

" Worst high school assignment ever... but maybe it was the teacher and my group rather than the book... "

" So boring. I can see why people think it was amazing... but really, what a bore. "

" Achebe is wrong! This book exposes and condemns European racism and colonization, not condones it. It even, in 1898, takes a stab at sexism. Conrad was a genius. "

" A simple novella plotwise. The language is powerful, scenery oppresive and the themes intellectually brutal. "

" Brilliant, although you need multiple reads to uncover it. "

" Good start. By the end you get a bit drowned in the heavy 19th-century writing style. There are some good excerpts and thoughtful moral messages, if you can manage to pick them out from the rubble of words... "

" the sentences! the sentences! The very end makes no sense to me, though. Think he screwed that up. I also don't see what was so great about Kurtz. Seems to me that might have been shown better. But the rest is beautifully written, sentence after sentence. "

" Good read. Easy read, although Old English difficult to follow at times. Great parallels and symbolism to the corporate world. "

" A great tale of the ocean and of human frailty. You will be dumping the sea water out of your chair. "

" Possibly a metaphor for the self-imposed rule of society as a ship tossed about in a turbulent and unwelcoming universe where men fight to preserve order or squabble over trivialities. Or maybe it is just a story about dumb luck and being almost crushed by a storm. "

" Possibly a metaphor for the self-imposed rule of society as a ship tossed about in a turbulent and unwelcoming universe where men fight to preserve order or squabble over trivialities. Or maybe it is just a story about dumb luck and being almost crushed by a storm. "

" Oh, my! One of the greatest, if not "the" greatest, ever written. Conrad must have experienced something similar or he could not have written it with such descriptions! I do like sea stories and I loved this one. (It's short but every word, as usual with Conrad, packed a punch!) "

" Oh, my! One of the greatest, if not "the" greatest, ever written. Conrad must have experienced something similar or he could not have written it with such descriptions! I do like sea stories and I loved this one. (It's short but every word, as usual with Conrad, packed a punch!) "

" Good read. Easy read, although Old English difficult to follow at times. Great parallels and symbolism to the corporate world. "

" Good read. Easy read, although Old English difficult to follow at times. Great parallels and symbolism to the corporate world. "