Should I read Schoenberg? I kind of don't get it.

I really hope you don't take this as a critique of the book.

It's just that I started reading it based on the "hype", so to say. And it didn't really click. So today I actually went through the contents page.

I'm... not really interested in what it has. I'm happy writing in whatever form my brain comes up with, and I'm not struggling to come up with ideas so far.

What I do struggle with is how to achieve a particular texture combining multiple instruments (which seems to fall under orchestration), as well as making all parts interesting instead of just the melody, while filling the rest with whole note chords (which might be counterpoint?).

But it seems that my time would be better spent analyzing pieces with what I'm looking for.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.