“The writing is so pretentious that it makes it hard to enjoy without rolling your eyes every few lines. It wasn't horrible, but it was well over-hyped to me. There were some interesting situations and characters that got me interested early, but it all kind of fell apart soon after.”
“I find it interesting you find his work pretentious. I find him to be humble and always has an attempt to make his protagonist appeal to the blue collar worker. I think he does his research well involving the situations he puts his characters in and has a certain fearless element in his writing. He takes a lot of chances and it works. ”