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Title: Disappointing
Review: I read this novel with the expectation of something similar for the C.S. Forester Novels of Hornblower. Boy, was I disappointed. It really is just an opera set to the background of the mid 1700's British Naval Era. It contains very little in the way of excitement that is worth anything. The writing is not moving and the explicit sexual scenes were over the top. I also take exception to the anti-gay sentiments revealed throughout the book. The writer reveals his true chauvinistic and homo-phobic tendencies with ungentleman like descriptions of women and gays. Reading pornography when I am looking for classic writing about a bygone era is like going to a boxing match and a hockey game breaks out, completely unnecessary. Sorry Dewey, but this one fell far short. I could not even complete the novel it was so bad.
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