I actually did read one of his recent ones - last couple of years - because the premise sounded so catnippy I had to try it. (This is how he gets you.) A single dad and his teenage daughter are given a dimension-traveling maguffin by a scientist on the run from Men in Black types, and sideslip into other realities where they try to unravel the mystery of why the kid's mom left. Upside: the teenage girl is actually a pretty likable and convincingly kidlike character. Downside: nearly everything else. They spend a lot of time being chased by police goons in a horrifying fascist dystopia ruled by the implacable iron fist of ... antifa.

... also the dad is named Jeffy and it's impossible to take a grown man named Jeffy seriously.

Edit: Okay, I had vague memories of having told you and Rachel about this book before, but apparently I liveblogged the entire process of reading it in email. Among the many things I had forgotten are the absolute stupidity of the ending and the inevitable presence of a golden retriever named Cuddles.