Fair enough. Personally I've studied the shepherd's rod and the writings of V. T. Houteff quite a bit. A fair bit of it I don't agree with though some of it I have found to be true. I would definitely not say that he was a prophet, but he was most defiantly a theologian. I look at his works the same as I do Ellen white's, since I view her as a theologian and not a prophet also. I don't mean any offense by comparing the two, just putting it into context for how I view Houteff.
That would be part of the reason why I was curious how many(if any) Adventists had read his work. Since I see some of it being true and other parts as false I was curious if others who read his writings might have come to the same conclusion.