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  You may read The Brothers Karamazov and hate it, and you may love it.  In an example such as this, I truly believe that the reader usually gets out what they put in...this is based on the assumption that anyone can relate to his writing even if it is dense, long, and can seem convoluted.  With the biochem journal, it would seem that it takes a long time to get into it because there is such a foundation of knowledge that one needs to really understand and get it.  These differ insofar as life makes Dostoyevsky interesting, whereas I imagine that a strong background in chemistry, an interest in quantitative data, and a fantastic imagination (to put the pieces together) makes biochem. really interesting.