You're very lucky to be in his parish. I thought his book was extremely interesting (complex but excellent points about the philosophical shift that led to, among other things, the current state of the Church and her ideas about herself in society, as well as the liturgy). I think the NO is basically rather deficient, but it is certainly bearable with his suggestions.
When I go to Mass in Spain, where the translation is much more accurate than the English translation, and the priests are not so given to impromptu flights of fancy, I find it much less distressing than I generally find Masses here in the US. Sometimes here in Florida I feel like my blood pressure has gotten so high I'm about to keel over in the pew! And I have low blood pressure to begin with...
I've only ever gone to this Holy Family Mass, but recently I attended a Mass at a large Franciscan Church and wow what a difference. Electric guitars and drums, "props" used during the Homily, no penitential right, a cement alter on astroturf, tabernacle stuffed in a plywood box off to the side and of course Marty Hagen filling the air like fingernails across a blackboard. I felt utterly depressed afterwards, which I suppose was the goal