I am.
I get the same feeling reading (lately listening on ipod) him as I did when I first read Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday. Is that blasphemous???
I just got his short story collection "Jesus Out to Sea" He is such a wonderful writer. One day I will send him a creepy stalker-type fan letter, telling him he is greater than John Steinbeck... ha ha ha.
He writes detective novels mainly, this is the first short story collection I have read of his. So talented.