You seem to be confusing &quot;I don&#x27;t like X&quot; with &quot;X is not good&quot;. If you don&#x27;t like it, you can just say, &quot;Neat, but that writing style isn&#x27;t to my tastes.&quot; You don&#x27;t have to run around expounding on the guy&#x27;s character flaws and making such sweeping assertions that there&#x27;s no room for anybody else to like the piece.<p>The guy taught journalism for 20 years and was a newspaper editor for a similar stretch. Maybe take a deep breath and consider that there are kinds of good writing that you haven&#x27;t yet learned to appreciate.