The book is everything everyone says it is, just a little less so for me. I don't recommend the audio version, because it was hard to follow the slightly dense prose. What was really remarkable is that I finished this book on a long commute, and switched to the next book I had downloaded, a non-fiction about quackery, and within the first couple of chapters, the author, Lydia Chang, quoted Beerbohm. The coincidence was stunning.