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Title: Clever idea, but
Review: Allowing the hero to live through all the interesting bits of British seamanship, discovery, pirating and war is a clever conceit, but in my view causes a fatal flaw. I like to believe in the characters I read about, and see how they develop with time, e.g. from youth to old age, or during an adventure or two. If the character lives for ever, he can't develop in a way which allows me to believe in him, so that the book became increasingly flat for me, and almost a chronicle of interesting historical times, but a chronicle without the excitement and tension of a developing character - he just stays (internally, it seems to me) the same.Added to this, Monsarrat, as has been noted by other reviewers, can't describe or develop female characters, which is a serious flaw in this book, as in his others.
