"The best book ever" That is my thought. I'm re-reading it, and enjoying it more and more.

You will find references to it everywhere else in literature, either to events in the book, or characters or themes. Keep looking for them.

For me, it is my answer to "which 3 books would you take to a desert island?" In search of lost time and another 2 (well, no, the 2nd would be the complete works of Borges, but the 3rd I don't care so much)