This is one of those books of two halves. First half was very dull, very little happens and you really have to keep battling to get past it. The second half turns into a real dark adventure as we hear more about and get closer to the elusive Mr Kurtz.

Whilst reading it I had this nagging feeling that things felt a bit familiar....as soon as Mr Kurtz's house is found it hit me, very similar to the movie "Apocalypse Now" turns out the movie was based on the book, I never knew that.

I suspect that the slow moving dull first half was supposed to be like that to build up the tension or something, it may have worked better for me if it wasn't so long.

Still it was an interesting read and it's another one of the supposed "classics" crossed off my reading list. :-)