I'm reading the book right now, and I bought two copies, one which I sent to a friend of mine. We decided that she and I would read about five chapters per week and talk about it with each other as we're reading it. I'm a little behind her, because I took the time to read a 42-page-long forward.

You know, I'm genuinely really liking it. The characters are immediately very strong, and I do find it well-written. It's interesting to think that for about a hundred years, mainstream America misremembered the book and wrote spiteful reviews of it.

A lot of older books take effort to get through, but this one has been a page-turner thus far. I will probably write a glowing review and highly recommend when I'm done. Heck, if I like it enough, I think that I might buy multiple copies and send them to several people I know who haven't read it. In some ways it would be easier if I don't like it that much, because it will mean that I'll have one less item in the long list of gifts that I want to give people.