@arensb@Helen50@bookstodon Well, quite right, but I also find I can appreciate fiction I don’t necessarily enjoy at first reading because I find them educational or different enough to keep going, e.g. Shakespeare. McCarthy’s BLOOD MERIDIAN and Robert Penn Warren’s ALL THE KING’S MEN are novels I fought my way through but am glad I read. Just my approach, tho’—certainly not a rule I’m prescribing.