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Title: Her writing is irritating - subject is interesting
Review: The book very frequently uses a very irritating grammer style (at least to me) - the use of the Conditional Perfect and Conditional Perfect Progressive verb tenses - "he would have heard", "Norris would have looked back", "he would have been formally dressed", "he would have been well aware", etc and much more etc. Another issue I have with the writing style is the author's leaping to conclusions with hardly any information to support the leap - e.g. critizing the Captain's use of "full canvas" to get to the whaling grounds when the ship's log makes no mention of bad weather or sailing problems. I'm only 50 pages into the book and reading it is heavy weather.
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