It is a lengthy slog for sure, but I found it a great way to kill some time. Maybe you just have to be in one of those reading moods.
But I appreciate the writing style, and I've got his site bookmarked for more systems safety reading in the future. It's a slog, but often this sort of ruthlessly-comprehensive breakdown is the best way to understand exactly how a complex thing went awry. Reading them every so often - even for non-software topics like drug treatments - seems to be a good refresher for my own error-analysis skills.