What is worse, IMO, is that the passage from the Dreams book presented as an example of how “great” a writer B.O. might be, is also atrocious (just in a different way). It reads like a 19 year old in their first creative writing class presenting an unintentional parody of “great writing”.
To be fair, I have not read his book, only passages here and there. Maybe the chosen passage is a bad example.
Like watching a dark and stormy day in reverse.