I really really wanted to like this more than I did, because this is one of the classics that you hear referenced all the time. However I mostly found it really dry and a bit dull. 
 A lot is lost, I think, due to the passage of time. I'd love to have been able to find this in an annotated version, because I sensed a lot of cultural references were flying over my head simply due to generational gap. There is also a lot of French thrown around with no translations, which was frustrating.