Maybe another English teacher like he would love his writing but I found his Elizabethan or old Latin writing style with his long convoluted sentences turning this way and that to be very tiresome and hard to follow where the story was going. I prefer simpler, more direct sentences with flow and vivid description that stay with the start of the story. He jumped around so much I had hard time following where he was going. I lost interest and couldn't even get through the first half of the book. It did have a lot of history involved with his stories but yet it was his writing style that if found tiresome and boring. Just not my cup of tea. Maybe it could be yours.