There are definitely some cases of emperor-no-clothes, but folks need to remember that reading a good book can sometimes be a difficult experience ("great books are as hard to read as they are to write"), and the gap between expectations and reality or the author's radical way to examine a thing you felt you already knew can be offputting.
Let the thing slosh around in your mind for a few years and see if it doesn't pop back out of your subconscious again.
Nearly half of my favorite works of art were things I immediately wanted to dismiss. Then I found, after a while, I would be thinking of them. When I re-watched, re-listened, re-read these things, I found a new appreciation for them.
If you tasted a refined, aged wine and compared it to a pleasing young offering, you might be tempted to dismiss all pricing and classifications as snobbery. But the more you develop your palate, the more you realize why some things rise to the top and maintain status over time (not all things, but a lot of them).
Let the thing slosh around in your mind for a few years and see if it doesn't pop back out of your subconscious again.
Nearly half of my favorite works of art were things I immediately wanted to dismiss. Then I found, after a while, I would be thinking of them. When I re-watched, re-listened, re-read these things, I found a new appreciation for them.
If you tasted a refined, aged wine and compared it to a pleasing young offering, you might be tempted to dismiss all pricing and classifications as snobbery. But the more you develop your palate, the more you realize why some things rise to the top and maintain status over time (not all things, but a lot of them).