the problem is how much shite there is out there to read through. you could read all the monad tutorials in the world but it won't help until you start using them yourself. (admittedly I'm going a step further from your point, not against it).

however, I'd say if I can't understand what an authors trying to say, it makes more sense to find one that I can understand first, and then go back to the more abstruse one.