[watwut]

> But unless they're Mark Twain or Ambrose Bierce, they're probably not much worth reading.

I strongly disagree. Being convoluted does not make the text more worth reading. It makes it more fun for one kind of reader. That is about it.

Being well written and pleasant to read does not make the text, whether fiction or real like account less worthy.

[Apocryphon]

Right, but much great writing from that era was convoluted, like the work of Herman Melville.