Adobe, can you make Reader any more annoying?

 I am getting to where I cringe when I have to open a PDF. First it grinds and grinds starting up, and then a dialog pops up... you have to install updates!  If I install... it's back next time with more updates. How many updates are really necessary for a simple product like this?   If I don't install, I have to cancel a box, then another box, then it pops up again, and I have to cancel it again, and another box again. What cancerous bunch of bloatware crap this has become. Not that it hasn't been for a while, but this is aggregious. 

Anyone have an adobe reader alternative they use and like?