If a book is 219 pages long and it takes you almost a month to read it, I think that says about all that needs to be said. Conrad's whole writing style is totally unreadable. His sentences are so long and convoluted that you have no memory of the beginning of the sentence when you finally get to the end, so you have to read the whole thing through again, but it still doesn't work, so you try reading the beginning, skipping the middle and jumping straight to the end, and only by using that technique, do you sometimes master whole sentences.

Maybe the style could be overlooked if the stories were good, but they're not. I could summarize all three of the stories' entire happenings in 30 seconds. The 95% of the text that doesn't move the plot along is apparently thrown in just so that literary critics and professors can spend their careers analyzing it down to the tiniest details, trying to find hidden meanings in it. But that's not my idea of fun, so I think I'll skip Conrad's work from now on.