Chris Baty on Why We Try to Endure Difficult, Boring Books

We buy these difficult books because we feel that, while not very exciting, they are in some way good for us. It’s sort of literature-as-bran-flakes philosophy. If something is dry and unpalatable, it must be doing something good for our constitutions.

~Chris Baty, No Plot, No Problem

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