Comments on: About Face http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html Latest News, Reviews and coupons Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:19:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mr. J. R. Prendergast http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html/comment-page-1#comment-14613 Mr. J. R. Prendergast Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:09:38 +0000 http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html#comment-14613 Bought as a gift for my Mum! She loves the book, but says that if you've been to Venice for real, you'll have a better sense and view of the setting for the book....notwithstanding that, the characters do become exposed through the story-lines through the book..... Rating: 5 / 5 Bought as a gift for my Mum! She loves the book, but says that if you’ve been to Venice for real, you’ll have a better sense and view of the setting for the book….notwithstanding that, the characters do become exposed through the story-lines through the book…..
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Jules C http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html/comment-page-1#comment-14612 Jules C Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:27:07 +0000 http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html#comment-14612 How very disappointing this book is. For those fans of the earlier stories, this one bears no comparison.In this book, we lack some of the fullness of the people around Brunetti,who play such a valuable part of the story,and create such a vivid scene, and as a result the story falls rather flat. Perhaps we are building up to Guidos' retirement! <br /> <br /> As the Commissario Brunetti gets older and more jaded in attitude towards his life with police, it seems the stories do to, and this one was bordering on the dull. We know that justice won't be metred out;it never is, but this was all too vague, too inconclusive and simply made the whole story seem rather pointless. The garbage issue, whilst making for politically correct reading, isn't particularly interesting, and ends up simply being depressing. <br />We were treated as usual to the family life, the meals,and the discussions,but even this fails to bring the book to life. Rating: 1 / 5 How very disappointing this book is. For those fans of the earlier stories, this one bears no comparison.In this book, we lack some of the fullness of the people around Brunetti,who play such a valuable part of the story,and create such a vivid scene, and as a result the story falls rather flat. Perhaps we are building up to Guidos’ retirement!

As the Commissario Brunetti gets older and more jaded in attitude towards his life with police, it seems the stories do to, and this one was bordering on the dull. We know that justice won’t be metred out;it never is, but this was all too vague, too inconclusive and simply made the whole story seem rather pointless. The garbage issue, whilst making for politically correct reading, isn’t particularly interesting, and ends up simply being depressing.

We were treated as usual to the family life, the meals,and the discussions,but even this fails to bring the book to life.
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: A. Lanteala-Brown http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html/comment-page-1#comment-14611 A. Lanteala-Brown Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:42:33 +0000 http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html#comment-14611 As usual for Donna Leone, this book is just SO UP TO DATE AND FANTASTIC !!!! Rating: 5 / 5 As usual for Donna Leone, this book is just SO UP TO DATE AND FANTASTIC !!!!
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Mrs. V. O. Hanlon http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html/comment-page-1#comment-14610 Mrs. V. O. Hanlon Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:02:25 +0000 http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html#comment-14610 This was bought for my husband's birthday, so my review is second hand. However, he found "About Face" not as satisfying as earlier books in the series. Too many literary references for non Latin scholars. Perhaps a touch of self-indulgence creeping in. Rating: 2 / 5 This was bought for my husband’s birthday, so my review is second hand. However, he found “About Face” not as satisfying as earlier books in the series. Too many literary references for non Latin scholars. Perhaps a touch of self-indulgence creeping in.
Rating: 2 / 5

]]> By: Shirley Wright http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html/comment-page-1#comment-14609 Shirley Wright Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:35:59 +0000 http://www.4utoday.com/about-face.html#comment-14609 A very disappointing book from Donna Leon. Some of her previous novels are excellent and other suffer from the same weaknesses as this one - perhaps she relies too much on her reputation and gives too little time to her plotting and writing style. When she is good she is very, very good and when she's bad she's . . . . Rating: 2 / 5 A very disappointing book from Donna Leon. Some of her previous novels are excellent and other suffer from the same weaknesses as this one – perhaps she relies too much on her reputation and gives too little time to her plotting and writing style. When she is good she is very, very good and when she’s bad she’s . . . .
Rating: 2 / 5

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