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Review title: Becalmed in ennui
Product review: Like Forrester and O'Brian before him, Mallalieu uses factual accounts of H.M Royal Navy during the age before steam to flesh out the bones of his fictional characters. Sadly, the flesh is meagre and quickly becomes a bloated bloodless corpse becalmed in a sea of ennui. Too often we see young writers tackle great themes only to founder in their own syntax. Sadly, there are no great themes and Mallalieu is not a young writer but an aged academic who has spent to much time in libraries and not enough on the Main, hoisting himself through the lubber's-hole over the futtock shrouds. Tales of Adventure on the high seas these ain't. Rather, a prolix insight into one man's wasted life in the cafeterias and chat-rooms of an East-Anglian polytechnic. Without any malice I would suggest the author make a sea-change and open a video shop
