I am doing much better lately by purchasing only those books by authors recommended or otherwise cited by noted top writers in philosophy and brain science. Thus, when the package arrives from Amazon in a couple weeks I am never disappointed and know I will be reading the whole book cover to cover, sentence by sentence. When a top writer admires the writing skill of another author, I have to see for myself and don’t usually bother with anything written after WW I, or if brain science anything written before 1996. But, don’t expect too much—what one author gleaned from another might be just the one-line quote you saw.
Brain science? Why that particular interest?