Just guessing, but it's probably because he stopped reading when you said
I read the word "hate" and I stopped reading shortly after. So I had missed the "redeeming quality" after that.
Sorry. I forget to not be honest on message boards cause people get all sensitive when you don't like something they do. Didn't say they were bad, just don't like them.
But, like I said. I wound up liking that he was there. He was pretty interesting.