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Smith's writing is not juvenile, but is a 'cartoonish', 1930s-styled pulp opera.
Unfortunately, you've read some of the comments here already, as his writing being kind of "over-the-top" stylistically.
Some books are meant to be discovered at a 'perfect' age, at an ideal time, but then become almost unreadable as one gets older. I suspect that Smith falls into this category of appreciation.
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