Huh? I am so confused about what I just read. That has to be some of the most verbose and constipated writing I have ever read. I could barely understand what the point of the book was. If it wasn’t so short, I would’ve DNFed it very fast.

I can give it credit for its historical importance, as one of the first writings by a white author to bring attention to the deplorable horrors, genocide and violence of colonialism in Africa. However, this doesn’t mean it was good. In fact, I would hazard to say it was more dehumanising to the  people it was attempting to uplift. What was even more perplexing was that the very man who had committed atrocities, that the whole plot line was apparently centred around, was then heralded as some kind of god, hero or virtuous man after his death, instead of the despot he was.

I don’t know, maybe I was simply not paying enough attention because I was severely bored, but I do not get it.

This book is amazing, but it is not very accessible considering how dense it is. 

strangely passive and obviously deeply colonialist and racist but I do vaguely see why it has stayed on the list of books English classes teach. There's something about the descriptions that are horrible and visceral like nothing I've ever seen before.

I'm glad I had to read it for this class and now I hope to never think about it again.