Naipaul is my favorite writer. A House for Mr. Biswas is a book I keep coming back to every year or so. It's deep, humorous and very melancholic. Miguel Street is the funniest book I've read. Naipaul is great!

I like Naipuls writing a lot, but I have read many many writeups over the years by critics and fellow writers and all of them agree he chose a path of aggressively antagonistic behaviour. By choice.