Not quite quizzable

What are your feelings about authors who intentionally make their writing obfuscatory?

Please answer in the comments, if you have an opinion... I couldn't quite sum up the possible reactions in neat little clickable quiz units, but I'd really like to know.

One of the first readings we were assigned for our anthro core course was by Marilyn Strathern ("Out of Context," 1987), who in discussing the shift towards post-modernism in anthropology deliberately twists and layers and complicates in very difficult-to-read ways. I enjoyed reading it in a sort of masochistic way, and despite the fact that I definitely didn't understand everything I read. I like it the same way I like difficult math puzzles, except without the same sense of closure one gets from reaching a solution... I just like the way it makes my brain stretch.

But then in talking to other students, in my class and in former years who read the same stuff, there seem to be a lot of people who react quite violently to this particular literary tactic.

Discuss!