The book contains a lot of fantastic thought experiments, and the contrived-ness of certain things required to set up those thought experiments was a price I wa

The book contains a lot of fantastic thought experiments, and the contrived-ness of certain things required to set up those thought experiments was a price I was happy to pay. I suspect whether the books are something a given person would enjoy are significantly down to said person's comfort with that in their taste in fiction. (though also I suspect my father would've hated them because he wouldn't've found the characters sympathetic, and if you need to actively like the protagonists of something to enjoy it that's probably also a good reason to spend your reading time on something else)