(Sorry for bad or awkward English, me is french)
As a total puzzle hater, I felt in love recently with Robb Sherwin's games (whose puzzles are still too hard for me, but at least, they are rare and they're not the main point of his games). Sherwin's writing is unique, both creepy and funny, sometimes melancholic - its melancholy being hidden under ten tons of dirty words and cynism.
Playing Necrotic Drift I had the feeling of reading a novel, but it wasn't a problem : reading a novel and sometimes typing the obvious actions of the main character, to continue the story, is enough to make an « interactive fiction » for me. The « feeling of being playing » is playing. But I'm sure Robb could become a « real » writer too.