http://www.bloggernews.net/116588 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:23:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/116588#comment-1675358 John A. Stoler Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:41:38 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/116588#comment-1675358 This review is right on target. THE FRONT is shallow, badly written, and with entirely unlikeable characters. I have read all the Scarpetta novels and liked almost all of them, although the last one, "Scarpetta" was deeply flawed as I have written in another space. Is she losing her stuff? She said in an English interview that she is a more sensitive writer now that she has come out of the closet and is in a same sex marriage, but her earlier works were better. (I don't want this to be seen as a disguised anti-gay statement that her novels got worse as she declared herself a lesbian--our family is a sexually [and racially] mixed one.) This review is right on target. THE FRONT is shallow, badly written, and with entirely unlikeable characters. I have read all the Scarpetta novels and liked almost all of them, although the last one, “Scarpetta” was deeply flawed as I have written in another space. Is she losing her stuff? She said in an English interview that she is a more sensitive writer now that she has come out of the closet and is in a same sex marriage, but her earlier works were better. (I don’t want this to be seen as a disguised anti-gay statement that her novels got worse as she declared herself a lesbian–our family is a sexually [and racially] mixed one.)

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