I don't know about anyone else, but I think you need to be older in order to truly appreciate classic literature. One of the things I have made it a habit of doing is to go back and re-read all of the books we were forced to read in high school and college, only this time it is for fun and not for some course. For the most part, my experience has been tremendously rewarding.

With one problem.

Adam Smith.

Adam Smith is just tedious and boring. Yes, I know it is supposed to be the foundation of modern economic theory (although some say he was more of a copy-cat than an innovator), which is why I insisted on the unabridged version. Perhaps that was a mistake.

Or is it that economics is boring, and that Adam Smith is no worse than the rest? Nah. I think it's him.