I never read the Maximum Ride novels. Are they any good?

kippurbird has been sporking the first one and is considering giving up, because not only is it abysmally bad, there's not a trace of evidence that James Patterson put a lick of effort into it.

We're talking "less effort than Stephenie Meyer."

Really. Meyer actually LIKES that pile of fetid goat brains she calls the Twilight series. Patterson has hit grocery list territory. He can sell ANYTHING he has written, no matter how shitty it is...so why bother to write something that's good?