The Writers ethnic background has absolutely nothing to do with the failure of this book! There are MANY MANY non-Italians right on these boards that, in my opinion, would have done a superb job in writing this book instead of Winegardner! It was a question of knowledge of the characters and continuity of the events that this Winegardner screwed up! Nothing to do with the ethnicity or traditions of the characters backgrounds. Jewish, Italian, Irish, Klingon, Vulcan, etc. is not the issue. The guy did not do his homework, that's the bottom line.


Don Cardi