I don't mind her themes, and respect her efforts to explore deeper realms of human psychology. However, I find her storylines to be insipid and full of loose ends. For example, in "The Magus" there were hints of an ongoing gathering of witches/occult practitioners which never took place. Chekhov said that if you introduce a gun in act one, the audience is going to expect it to be fired before the play is over. Eric’s stories are full of unfired guns. 

Her most irritating characteristic is her tendency to have characters endlessly repeat conversations. A will have a conversation with B in Act One and then B will repeat the entire conversation, word for word, to C later in the story. Sometimes this will happen multiple times within a single story. You really could skip the entire first act of her stories without missing a beat.

I do get a kick out of the fact that she almost always includes animals in her stories even if only in a minor way. One of her stories – I don’t remember which one offhand –even contains a reference to a “crazed woodchuckâ€ – definitely not a phrase you encounter very often in stories of any kind. 