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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1863455" data-attributes="member: 812">You think? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />On the whole "Try it, try it again, try it again!" thing:If a writer creates a book that is hard to read, they shouldn't be surprised if lots of people don't like it. Lots of artist set out to make deliberately challenging, difficult, unpleasant works. Nothing wrong with that, just like there's nothing wrong with not liking such things.It is true that some pleasures must be acquired. You have to make yourself like it.When I first started reading sonnets, I had to force myself to do it. Sonnets are hard to read -- their rewards are unfamiliar to modern readers, and take training and persistence to acquire. I'm glad I did so, because no matter how good you think William Shakespeare is, if you don't understand the Shakespearean sonnet, you don't know how good he REALLY is.Same thing with jazz -- first time I heard Thelonious Monk I had no appreciation for it and didn't pay any attention. Little different, now.Same thing with BEER, for crying out loud. When I was a kid I thought beer was revolting. You can learn to like anything, I guess.Not everything is worth putting that effort into, of course, and we all of us have to make decisions on where we spend our time, and sometimes we decide without ALL the information at hand, because, hey, I can just read a different book, right?Somebody who hasn't actually finished a book, however, isn't in much of a position to say much about it except "I didn't finish it and here's why."</blockquote>

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