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To me it is chess. I know how the piece move but that is it.

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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Reading a book that explains a book I don't understand and failing to understand either at the end.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like at least one of the books in question is shit

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or the subject matter is advanced.

I've read a lot of material on quantum physics and it's still mostly word salad to me.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Right, I was expecting the earlier one to be a work of fiction

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You're not dumb if you fail to understand a book of philosophy. Very few are as straightforward as Das Kapital for example.

I'll agree with that. Convoluted nonsense for the sake of being convoluted is very rarely good writing. There's some stuff with more complexity and longer developing story-lines, but the minute to minute reading should still flow even if you don't see how the big picture is going to develop.