The sad fact of the matter is that this boils down to: you will never live long enough to read even all the good books, for almost any value of &quot;good&quot; [1]. While the OP may be responding to another writer whom he deems &quot;troll&quot;, the other author is just pointing out &quot;look, I&#x27;m not going to live forever, and I&#x27;ve determined I don&#x27;t like this author, so I&#x27;m not reading his works.&quot; albeit in a trollish way.<p>This old chestnut has been trod out so many times it&#x27;s becoming a dead horse. Not that it doesn&#x27;t have a point, but I can remember a discussion here a while back (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8492659" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8492659</a>) where we went over a very similar topic, although with not as deep connections to culture in general.<p>Suffice to say, everyone selects, and usually from ignorance, unfortunately. The best you can do is force yourself to look at things you wouldn&#x27;t normally, get out of your comfort zone, consider expert advice like that given in &quot;How to Read a Book&quot;. And I say this as someone who <i>has</i> read Pratchett, enjoyed some of it, didn&#x27;t enjoy other parts, and I will (probably) never read the twilight series as I consider it garbage (and no, I&#x27;ve never even looked at it).<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;what-if.xkcd.com&#x2F;76&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;what-if.xkcd.com&#x2F;76&#x2F;</a>