The books of his that I've read, he cares more about whatever point he's trying to make instead of the story he's telling. As a writer and a fiction fan, that's a no-no in my book.
I've actually gone to a session where he was on the panel with a bunch of other authors and he seems like a nice guy, but in the stories of his that I've tried to read, he kept tossing me out of the narrative with whatever axes it was that he was trying to grind. For me, that's a big pet peeve for fiction authors...sacrificing story for message. If you can't contain your message within the framework of your story, why bother? But that's just me, I guess. |
