I lurrrrrrrve me some David Mitchell. Here is an interview with him oh HuffPo, and I’ve never heard anybody capture the essence of my feelings more succinctly:

5. If there was one book you had to burn for firewood, which would it be?

Any self-serving memoir by a politico with wide smile [sic] and gimlet eyes. I don’t think I’d be short of choice.

Go read all of it.