"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

A classic that must be revisited every once in a while as a reminder

Apocalypse Now doesn’t do justice to this story. You need to actually lose yourself amidst the pages to discover the true darkness humanity possesses. With each page, you’ll be drawn further and further into the jungle of emotions, where you’ll try to keep away from the tentacles of nausea and disgust as you traverse the primordial struggle for survival. Sure, you’ll fight the mosquitoes and humidity of ethics, but in the end you will succumb to what Joseph Conrad refers to as the dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths and germs of empires.

-by Simon Cleveland