One of the greatest books I've ever read. Obviously then it is one of my all time favorites. I think about it often in daily life. Not every day but at least once a week. You can learn many life lessons from this book. Creative stories are the best to learn from, no? It is hard to read a text book and absorb all that it entails, yet put all that information into an engaging tale and voila! You've got all that info stored up top for as long as you need it. There are tradecraft lessons in the book's pages, emotional control lessons like mastering fear, and lessons about manipulating others, which is a skill everyone uses daily whether they want to believe it or not.