![]() ![]() Whether you believe such hardship is endurable or survivable, whether such brutality is a true reflection of life on board a whale boat is rendered irrelevant because the author pushes the boundaries beyond credibility, which is a pity. What did drive me as a reader was the action, which certainly does not lack imagination. It's as though the author got bored and decided to just move the protagonist, Sumner who in the next chapter mysteriously is beamed to a new location. The action moves apace but the structure of the story is left wanting by huge gaps. Does the the language, swearing and action really have to be so foul ? Even if this is how they behaved on whaling boats in the second half of the nineteenth century I do not believe the author needs to sprinkle the f-word as liberally as he does or go into quite such graphic descriptions of bodily mutilation and faecal functions - and malfunctions. Gruesome horror story ? Thriller ? Historical fiction ? Maybe all of them. The North Water: A Novel Audio CD Unabridged, by Ian McGuire (Author), John Keating (Reader) 3,687 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 1 million more titles 10.99 to buy Audiobook 0. ![]()
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