Leibniz is an uneven reading experience for me. His principle of sufficient reason, effusive piety, and faith in compossibility are unfashionable at the least. His long digressions into subtle epistemological distinctions are completely uninteresting to me. BUT, Leibniz's exposition of the nature of monads is absolutely fascinating. Getting a view of this beautiful, multi-faceted concept was totally worth skipping around all the other stuff I found to be chaff. ( )

After reading this book, "Monadology" remains pretty much a "WTF" affair, as far as I'm concerned. I think I actually only really understood what Leibniz was getting at when I read Hegel's critique of him. ( )