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This is definitively Boyles best, also first, novel and it´s completely different than his other works.

In general, Boyle is dark, close to depressing and the jokes are the same, good, but quite kind of hardcore dark comedy style. Water music is smooth, funny, clever and not in a 20th-century setting, as most of his other novels and I would be unable to say if it is the same author if I read this and one of his other novels after another.

It criticizes colonialism, racism, white mans´ burden, slavery and the mentality of the 18th century in a both funny and deep, meaningful way and I guess Boyle could have reached, like Matt Ruff and Christopher Moore, much more readers and fame, if he would have stayed both funny and critical instead of becoming dark and critical. Don´t get me wrong, I like all of his works, but they are really a downer and, as seen in this work, could be uppers instead.

The great social critique he includes in his 20th century setting novels doesn´t get the appreciation it could have, because nobody likes to be made sad, and why he began writing like this, especially with a background in creative writing, makes no sense to me.

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