I love this book and the whole series -- rereading it again for the third or fourth time. I suggested the first book, A Question of Upbringing, for my book club and people were not enthusiastic. I think you have to love literary style, and his in particular, to enjoy the books, and also you have to be familiar with British novels and history in the first three-quarters of the last century. But he is so subtle, witty and never mean, unlike so many of his contemporaries, and so candid about the faults and oddities of his novelistic stand-in, Nicholas and so acute about his friends and the people he observes, that every reading is a pleasure.