‘Flags in the Dust’ was written before he found his voice. You probably don’t like Joyce or Pynchon either I’m guessing.
Not particularly or at all. I found Twain, Poe, Rand, Orwell, Bradbury, Heinlein, Chaucer, Shakespeare to have been some of my favorites. Poets other than Poe not at all. Biography of key figures in history like Franklin, Adams, Henry VIII, Churchill are good as well as the works of Churchill, and Paine. Everything from history of England, the Celts, the Pacific campaigns of WWII to America, The Roosevelt Myth, The Road to Serfdom, History of the Crusades, Operation Dark Heart, and Across Atlantic Ice-The origin of America’s Clovis Culture. There is one children’s book, The King, the Mice, and the Cheese which after many years I still enjoy reading from time to time.
My library of books and ebooks has varied greatly over the years.