Originally posted by Don Cardi:
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.
I couldn't agree more, but frankly I'm surprised that it took so long before I heard someone blaming the failure on the book on the fact that MW isn't Italian. There's a lot of the "you can only write what you know" mentality here that I think is really off base.
