There are some images and tidbits from this book that will stick with me for years, and a lot of it was fascinating. It was also a little more random than I expected, and tended to get off theme more than the average non-fiction book (like the author came across stuff in her research that she just couldn't not share - kind of cute, but distracting), but that tendency may have been exaggerated by the fact that I was listening to the book rather than reading it on paper. She says in the introduction that she's not interested in anecdote, and yet that's what much of the book is. Probably that was unavoidable given the subject matter, but ... well... revise the introduction, then.
Mostly it was fun, and interesting, but occasionally annoying, and the reader's tone was a bit too "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" for me at times.