Wow. What an incredible article.<p><i>&gt;There are writers we instinctively, permanently dislike: not only will we never read them, we will quietly relish the not-reading, finding in it a pleasure that can occasionally rival reading itself.</i><p>I know exactly what the author is talking about, and it doesn&#x27;t just apply to books; in fact, a far more visible and pervasive instance of this kind of behavior occurs with respect to music. So many people (and I don&#x27;t exclude myself in the slightest) are so opinionated about what kind of music is &quot;good&quot; and make such gigantic points of what they refuse to listen to, sometimes to the extent of hostility! I fell into this trap for many years; within the last 6 months I decided to trash my preconceptions and force myself to believe that all music is good, and that &quot;good music&quot; is really just &quot;music I like&quot; since any judgement on the quality of art is necessarily subjective...not to say I completely stopped disliking some music anymore, but at least with that viewpoint I can happily coexist with people that like music I don&#x27;t.<p>Anyway, great piece about a behavior lots of us engage in but few of us like to admit :P