Title: Gave up two Chapters in...
Product review: The author's writing style is very hard to read. It is poetic and I can appreciate a turn of phrase here and there...but it is quite a slog. He just loads the text with so many little details; he goes on and on about how high the sand banks are and how low this Russian ship or that African ship are in the water...I just didn't care about these details at all...they added absolutely nothing to the narrative and frustrated me to no end. So I decided to abort this trip of the Yangzte...before it even really began. Life is too short than to waste it reading nautical miscellany.
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