Honestly, you could read all the greatest books several times in a life with a habit of reading and a good prioritization. Many great books are pleasurable but

Honestly, you could read all the greatest books several times in a life with a habit of reading and a good prioritization. Many great books are pleasurable but many pleasures are acquired. The pleasures of middle age are not the pleasures of youth. The things you might toss aside one year are the things you cherish a decade later. If a reader doesn't get something out of a great book then that's a problem with the reader more than the book.