This depends on how you read and understand. This book can't be understood from the true sense of good or bad. Of course, the easy-to-understand way is more attractive to beginners, and everyone likes it, but once it goes deep, it is basically not enough. Because the comparison of classic things is the product of public aesthetic orientation.
Taking it as a book as a reference is very suitable for you to enter the category of Chinese studies. The contents of Chinese studies in the form of recordings, appendices and words can guide you to play and understand yourself well, combining some history books and some modern works and handouts that analyze the history at that time.