I was completely entertained by this book - there's enough historical fact to make it believable. I will never look at Lincoln in the same way - I will forever picture him with an axe in his hand!
I did the audio version of this book, read by Joe Mantegna. I'm not sure if it was the reader or just the dialog of millions of short choppy sentences, but I wanted to punch someone through most of the book. It's a perfectly good story, maybe just read it yourself and skip the audio version.