You make good points...most of them seem to hinge on your awareness that your time is limited, or that the topic is not one you&#x27;re intensely interested in...<p>I&#x27;m forced to make choices like that, myself...sadly...a chance to grow as a person--who knows what knocks at our door at any given time?<p>That&#x27;s fair...we all get to choose what we read...<p>Some great works are &quot;insiders&quot;...the writers received the award because other writers understood the difficulty of what was being attempted...and appreciated the effort...<p>Some works are deeply steeped in, and influenced by, literary theory...they&#x27;re highly technical, even obtuse to the layman, but other writers &quot;get it&quot;...they&#x27;re often not &quot;popular&quot; for that reason...<p>And often they have the most to offer...