malcolm glazier

This book may have some interesting and useful information, but what use is that information if nobody can actually get to it? The writing style is very opaque. He uses a needlessly complex sentence structure, passive rather than active voice, and ten-thousand dollar words for about ten cents' worth of information. The result is a book that is just dry, boring, and annoying. I had to read it for a class and got through it by making it into a drinking game. Every time a sentence started with "indeed," which is every other sentence, I took a shot of rum. I thought rum would be festive considering this book is about the trans-Atlantic region in the eighteenth century. Needless to say, I was damn near drunk by the end of chapter one.