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I'm going to go ahead and repeat what everyone else has said.

I liked his early stuff when I was in junior high and read everything he put out. Then he put out Insomnia and I hated it. Then I went to college and took "contemporary ____ lit." type classes and discovered a slew of great writers who are still alive and writing.

I don't have a lot of time on my hands and so I have kinda adopted the same idea for books that I have for music, which is "there is so much good music being made, I don't have time for bad, or even mediocre, music." There are so many good books being written these days, and I'm already behind in my reading, that I just don't have time to try and sift through bad and mediocre writing.