The First Amendment allows freedom of the press, which I am totally in favor of. However, [I was unprepared for ]the ...graphic depiction of sexual encounters in the first part of the book.
Perhaps the author felt that readers would be bored by the tale, so he decided to interject numerous sex scenes into the book. For me, it ruined the tale.
This is definitely not a book which should be on the shelves of any school system.

Reads as a history of the original inhabitants of Newfoundland, beginnnig 1000 a.d. ending 19th century.

I found the first half of the book to be pretty gripping, well-written and very active. However, by mid-book things were reading like a re-hash of prior pages, especially the mindlessly repetitive sex scenes noted by the other reviewer. The story went through revolutions along these lines: noble people lead idyllic, "free love" lives including living efficiently with the land and exploring all manner of sexual congress, only to be betrayed and slaughtered by european colonists, repeat cycle every 50-100 years, etc.

Overall, I enjoyed the book but it really got tiresome at times, especially the redundant sex passages and characters endlessly reflecting on sexual matters. Unbalanced book in this regard.