Maybelline Not So Great Lash?!

I'm not exactly sure why I bought this mascara and convinced myself I needed to try it again! It's been years since the last time I used it. I've been trying this mascara since about the age of 13 and I never really fell in love with it. But alas I was a sucker to peer pressure and after seeing constant rave reviews and Allure magazines frequent pushing of this mascara as a Best of Beauty hall of fame winner and dubbing it a cult classic mascara I found myself picking it up yet again. Not only did I purchase this mascara, use it about three times, and remembered how much I disliked it but I bought it in a 2 for the price of 1 pack so now I'm stuck with two stinkin tubes of it! I'm not really crazy about this tiny little brush, it's like a classic mascara wand but is so stiff and small it doesn't do much to separate my lashes. It tends to distribute the product unevenly and my lashes get all stringy and stuck together in little bunches. I was hoping that it would give me a very natural looking lash. Not overly voluminous but just enough length and separation. I think more than anything its the formulation that I can't stand. It's stinky and strange. It literally feels like I've put glue into my lashes. Am I the only one that feels this way about this supposedly fabulous mascara?!