5.0

I thought this would be slow and dry and it was anything but. It ended up being one of the most poignant, captivating and engaging books that I've come across. I think this has a chance to be the best book I'll ever read and almost certainly the best biography I'll ever read. The level of detail is astounding, and every little weird idiosyncratic thing that comes up almost always becomes relevant again later in the book. I was even fighting off tears at the end.