I finally finished the book a month after throwing it across the room when Dick Pierce set the engine in his new boat. Insulting to those of us who know the process of bedding the engine. Those precious bolts are set in a critical pattern within a human hair's width between laminated wood tied structurally to or through the keelson. What don't you ever ever do? Let the engine mounts scrape the threads of those virgin bolts no matter how dramatic the sound may read. If you do it on the page and get a National Book Award, well fine. But don't expect clemency from readers who know fakery when it scrapes their threads.