Now you're just being contrary. The novels are awesome. Well, the first two Bester ones were a bit slow... But their problem was they didn't actually have a lot of Bester in them. The first one was about his parents and the second one was before he was all snarky bastard-awesome. He was too young. The third book though, was awesome both for Bester and Garibaldi. But the Technomage trilogy and the Centauri trilogy were both amazing.

Ye have little faith in JMS plots.