Some think you are kind,
Proving how well they know you.
You are a Rat-Fink.

- Fred Philips

How can you tell if the book you are reading is truly smashing? Easy. You get so wound up in reading it that even tho you know you have to get off at the next train station and are watching for it, you manage to pass right by and barely make it off the train at the next station on. ;)

This time it's Harry Turtledove's A World of Difference.
Once upon a time, Harry wrote actual books. Books. Not series. A book you could pick up and start from the beginning and when you came to the end of the book, the story had finished. Wonderful books. I suggest skipping series by anyone. Get books.