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S. I. Hayakawa was a way better writer - that's where I got all my reprocessed Korzybski as a kid, and that's where I point people: Language in Thought and Action instead of Science and Sanity. I tried once to read the latter book as a kid, after being referred to it by Null-A. I was probably about... eleven years old? Thirteen? I gave up very, very rapidly, which I did not do for physics texts with math in them.
For me it was Heinlein --> Korzybski --> van Vogt in my early teens. I doggedly ploughed through Korzybski, but the curious thing is, in my early twenties I reread him, and found him, not exactly light reading, but far clearer than he had been on my first attempt.