Why is everyone who writes a book I like so terrible? Okay I mean not EVERYONE, but so many of them.
Don't answer, I know; it's because in reactionary hellworld a certain type of person tends to be the one whose voice can travel in the culture, and even when you enter ostensibly left-wing spaces, this reactionary cultural dynamic still tends to replicate itself - I heard about these folks' books, precisely because they're amenable to SOME reaction, and therefore, cooptable within a reactionary capitalist culture.
I just hate the dynamic. It's not that I don't understand it; it just pisses me off.