I agree - some of that heavy Russian literature stuff wouldn't get anywhere - but in my opinion that's as bad as let's say
JK 'literary dwarf' Rowling's load of sh*t. .
But my aunt is good with words - but that doesn't make a Nobel Prize winner.
Is HG Wells hard to read? Is Orwell hard to read? Is Greene hard to read? All those are deserving of the title - not some song writer -that's what i'm thinkin'