I’ll agree with that. Convoluted nonsense for the sake of being convoluted is very rarely good writing. There’s some stuff with more complexity and longer developing story-lines, but the minute to minute reading should still flow even if you don’t see how the big picture is going to develop.
Reading a book that explains a book I don’t understand and failing to understand either at the end.
Sounds like at least one of the books in question is shit
Or the subject matter is advanced.
I’ve read a lot of material on quantum physics and it’s still mostly word salad to me.
Right, I was expecting the earlier one to be a work of fiction
No no philosophy :(
You’re not dumb if you fail to understand a book of philosophy. Very few are as straightforward as Das Kapital for example.
I’ll agree with that. Convoluted nonsense for the sake of being convoluted is very rarely good writing. There’s some stuff with more complexity and longer developing story-lines, but the minute to minute reading should still flow even if you don’t see how the big picture is going to develop.