This was one of those semi-classics that I had heard of but never read. It shows up on a lot of those 100 greatest American novels, and after reading it, I think it deserves its ranking. The book starts out annoying as the reader meets George Amberson. He is the kind of rich, spoiled, arrogant person everyone loves to hate. And I did hate him. But the world changes around George Amberson and the reader gets to see a changing of the guard in America. The good is good to the last page.