If there's such a thing as an eagerly anticipated book in the history museum world, this would be at the top of the list. I know I had to wait for a second printing to get my copy. I've been following the Anarchist's work for a while, and I agree with a lot of what he has to say--but I certainly don't agree with everything.
The book itself is a great consolidation of his many blog posts, webinars, presentations, etc. I used a few portions of it for a recent staff training and have passed my copy on to other staff.
There is a decidedly New England bent to his examples, and I wish he had used some examples from outside the historic house museum world to inspire historic house museums. Though the pages on the research methodology help validate his ideas, I found myself skimming them.
This is an important book for the field, but I also don't believe his ideas are quite as revolutionary or outside the box as he leads you to believe. There were certainly several points where I thought to myself "we've been doing that for years." Worth picking up, will probably spark some new ideas, but it certainly didn't transform my museum philosophy.