Review: TOO STACCATO  TOO ODDLY PUNCTUATED TO ALLOW THE STORIES THROUGH
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2014
Yes, this is a harsh rating.  As I began "Double Exposure" the author's use of a list of single wordsbecame an homage to Hemingway while channeling Roget.  I don't condemn the poetic prose butit felt like driving over botts dots -- distracting.  I could not sink into the story when every third pagelisted again.  I skipped after the first third to the next novel, Burnt Offerings hoping for a better result.Within a few pages, another list.  Also, instead of distinguishing dialogue with quotations, the authorindents and signals with a hyphen.  I had to keep going back to make sure the speaker wasn't referringto someone else saying "she said" .  Am I too picky? Maybe for those for whom staccato poorly signaledprose is not distracting, but I just can't.  I am not the punctuation police.  I could not get more than twochapters into each of the novels offered.  I cannot recommend a book that I cannot read.  Sorry.