Talk:The Secret Agent

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[edit] Does Wikipedia review movies?

I'm not sure that I agree with Benna that Wikipedia "doesn't review movies" (edit 4th October). My other comments in the piece "...very atmospheric..." and "...extremely sinister..." were not edited out by Benna. How can you describe a film without offering some comment on its merits? As I recall (and it's a long time ago that I saw it) the Hitchcock film is embarrassingly bad. Peter Maggs 20:34, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

It's always been my impression that wiki is supposed to be totally objective and not have any personal opinions in it. You could mention common criticisms/comments, with links to the appropriate reviews. I could easily be wrong about opinions on wiki, though.

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Free audiobook from LibriVox.org.

[edit] Trivia Section

Currently, there is one piece of "trivia" listed in this section and it runs as follows:

According to evidence from the Unabomber proceedings this book apparently had quite an effect on Theodore Kaczynski.

This phrase is so vague as to be meaningless. What kind of effect did it have? What evidence? How did Conrad's novel influence Kaczynski? It would be nice if this could be clarified by whoever wrote this, otherwise I think it needs to be deleted. --Todeswalzer 18:46, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

No one's clarified the meaning of this sentence so I've removed it from the article. --Todeswalzer 02:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)