Originally Posted by clickhappy

In fact, if a book has a point, multiple readers ought to come up with the same answer when asked what that point is.

If they come up with different answers, it is either because the author was incompetent at communicating his point, or because the book has no point, or because the author deliberately obfuscated the point.

The only time different people look at the same thing and come up with different answers as to what it is they are looking at is when the thing they are looking at is amorphous, .