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Title: Just forget the history
Review: If 'Gothic' means you forget all about accuracy and plausibility, then this book certainly merits the title.It's quite an enjoyable read, at least till about three-quarters of the way through, when the inaccuracies, anachronisms and implausibilities got too much for me.Inaccuracies: e.g. sowing wheat and barley in July, slave trade shipping Africans to England and then to the Americas, England in the midst of continual wars (had in 1741 just finished twenty years of peace, in fact.)Anachronisms: eg top hats, sovereigns, docks, shotguns, a tin roof ...Implausibilities: someone living in the opulence of the Ashbrooks would have a steward to look after the estate, and not need to train his son to do it. Riding shotgun (in fact it wouldn't be a shotgun) on a coach wouldn't be the sort of job you'd entrust to a half-wit.I'd like it better if it was Bjharrn on the planet of Sppljorrk. But the Disneyland eighteenth century is too much to swallow.
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