oh it's kinda academic but not even engaging enough to be memorable because as he keeps saying there wasn't much source material to work with. it's interesting in a particular historical context and while he does look at the title in that context it was a bit hohum… i mean, pirates!!! sodomy!!! maybe neal stephenson needs to write a sequel to the baroque trilogy with homo-buccaneers… i wanted to read i think, 'rum sodomy and the lash' also. but mmm just for the title it's worth buying.
yeah, i asumed it was an academic approach, so i'm okay with that. the novelty and the book cover (carefully chosen illustration?) alone make it worthwhile. rum, sodomy and the lash is high on my reading list too, but if neal stephenson writes homo-buccaneers, i'm reading it.
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haha oh the title is the best thing,(a friend bought it for me last year) but it's worth it for that alone sitting on your bookshelf
frances, hey! the title is amazing, so dry and straight forward, but totally salacious. if you read it, what did you think?
oh it's kinda academic but not even engaging enough to be memorable because as he keeps saying there wasn't much source material to work with. it's interesting in a particular historical context and while he does look at the title in that context it was a bit hohum… i mean, pirates!!! sodomy!!! maybe neal stephenson needs to write a sequel to the baroque trilogy with homo-buccaneers… i wanted to read i think, 'rum sodomy and the lash' also. but mmm just for the title it's worth buying.
yeah, i asumed it was an academic approach, so i'm okay with that. the novelty and the book cover (carefully chosen illustration?) alone make it worthwhile. rum, sodomy and the lash is high on my reading list too, but if neal stephenson writes homo-buccaneers, i'm reading it.
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