Title: Sloppily written, badly researched
Product review: A quite awful novel, sloppily written and very badly researched. In 1886, a young man has to go from London to Burma, and engage there into a long river voyage to the deep jungle (a la Apocalypse Now) in order to fine tune the piano of a warlord. Anybody who has some familiarity with the Victorian era can see how badly researched this book was, the dialogue sounds instantly phony, people during that era didn't talk (or think) at all like characters of this book do. After reading very favorable reviews, I felt after finishing this novel that I have lost precious hours of my life and whatever money it costs me to buy this book.
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