DNF

It seems that books of erotica are not my thing.

No plot to speak off. This book was not really a novel as much as sporadic notations made by the author on daily observations in his life.

I'd already read 'North and South' by the same author and I loved it. Naturally I thought I would enjoy this too but was surprised by how boring it was.

It suffers the same way that Moby Dick suffered; it presented too many superfluous details about sailing and the operations of a ship and offered too little in the way of plot.

Started off really well. The first part of the book was honestly enthralling and interesting, but as soon as the perspective changed to a different character I lost interest as I had no patience to relive the entire sequence of events up until that point.