It's possible the subject itself is "boring", and I have found other compiler books to mostly be intolerable. Crafting Interpreters, IMHO, is the most accessib

It's possible the subject itself is "boring", and I have found other compiler books to mostly be intolerable. Crafting Interpreters, IMHO, is the most accessible book on the subject. If you didn't find the implementation of the first part exciting, I would suggest to probably ignore the book code after reading the text and implement it yourself, and later compare with the book implementation. I encountered several pleasent surprises using this approach.