After Reading Angela's Ashes

Some authors leave you with: He writes well, but he doesn't write good. In other words, the writing is titillating, even brings the ache to the heart in some scenes, but at the end  the depth of goodness one hoped was underneath the writing was not there at the same level of the sophisticated syntax. The temptation to excite the hormones was too great it seemed. In other words, Chesterton's 'madness of Manhattan' was too strong for the very talented writer's heady ink.