Just think if Maturin had put it that directly, I wouldn't have wasted all that time wading through a bunch of stories about life in a monastery, which quite frankly was repetitive and boring and didn't really add much to the basic plot line. With so much anti-Catholic propaganda coming at me as well all the stories within stories, I had a really difficult time concentrating on what's supposed to be the main plot-that John Melmoth's ancestor made a pact with the devil and takes a couple of hundred years to try and snare some innocent soul to take his place. He really wanted his readers to know how corrupt and down-right bad the so-called "holy men" of the Catholic Church were and he was willing to tell them so in story after story and hit them over the head with the idea until they cried for mercy. Besides that, he's long-winded and repetitive. Good old Charles has a lot in common with Tristram Shandy-he loves to tell stories within stories with stories. Charles Robert Maturin used them all up in the early 19th Century. You would think that I would have more to say about about a book that is 659 pages long. This is going to be awfully short-especially in comparison to the book I read.
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