Good point!

I will say that one of the problems, in my mind, is that he was going for an epic poetry feel. I studied literature in college and had no use for epic poetry. (Except for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. And, interestingly, Beowulf, which most people hate. It just worked for me.) So that right there means I was never the target audience. However, I do understand the motifs he was pulling from, and I think that would be fun to discuss.