If you enjoy action, adenture and romance, this read is for you. It's an entertaining read and reputedly the most popular of the author's work. I like reading novels of this type occasionally because they signify what people of that era were reading and what authors of that period were writing. It smacks a bit to me like Hemingway's novels of adventures during wartime as journalists struggled to report what was happening. It's a book of its time and fun to read.