It's not that I wanted a positive spin, it's that I wanted something a little more useful and analytical than a "we all just need to come together, ya' feel me bro?" 'voice of the people' hipster act, which is what Charlie generally seems to provide instead of, you know, actual reporting and analysis.

As for the Times review, first one would do well to remember that, as dookie joe points out above, LeDuff was pushed out of the Times after engaging in some very ethically questionable "journalism" [[he made his name there straight out of school as part of ill-fated editor Howell Raines' move to hire untested young journalists to make the Times more 'youthful' and 'relevant' - a move that also brought us Jayson Blair). The Times review was written by LeDuff's buddy and fellow professional Detroiter Paul Clemens. One of the few good things I have to say about LeDuff's work is that at least he doesn't engage in the borderline racism that marks Clemens' work.