"Looking back, I realize that many of the classics I’d read in high school and college were written in a much more dense style, and I read those books simply because they were required reading. That’s not to say that I didn’t love them and cherish what I’d read, but I seldom find myself wanting to go back and reread them, because most—like The Heart of Darkness—were just written in a style that required a lot of work, and were tedious to get through because of what I realize now was poorly constructed architecture."