Took me a while to get through Heart of Darkness. The reading of it was as arduous as the story being told. I expected some moral, but what I got was a lot of flowery prose that defied interpretation. The natives are nothing but a backdrop for the protagonist, and the Europeans with who are given character are boring. There's barely any action; and when there is it's over in a flourish of insane rambling before it even has started.

One thing I'll say is that it makes the Westerns I read seem morally complex.