Well this book is certainly a refresher to read after the guessing game of 1984. In the beginning of the book it seems like a telling of a great tale of how a seaman got his start in exploring the unknown. However a couple pages later it seem s the story turns instead of an exciting adventure into a story of dread and the discovering of one's darkest characteristics and corruption of his soul.
If 1984 was a downer this book just changed the scale of how fast you can depress someone. The tone through out the book is one of dread, as the landscapes are described as dead grasses and savage lands to even the people the main character finds himself meeting. each new character he encounters seems more corrupt then the next. The main character faces all kinds of hardships and misfortune from at first being sent to a place starved, meeting unkind people, even his boat sinks unexpectedly with no hope of its repair. Even the person who pretty much runs the place dies while the main character is with him. Such a spell of bad luck only cause the reader to see how his soul is being corrupted by each passing misfortune.
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