The story itself was good. A beautiful but sad story of the tragedy in becoming over-reliant on nostalgia... I think. I did feel like there were things I was missing, so it's definitely a book I'd like to 'study' one day. 

TheThe introduction in the version I read was long and a bit painful to get through - definitely aimed at people who have already read the book. Which I had, but long enough ago that most of the references in the introduction went over my head! It did help me pick out some elements under the story I may not have noticed without it though, which was interesting. I suspect I will come back to this book a third time in the future.