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I read On The Origin Of Species last year and was very impressed.
I found it a bit of a slow read, --there is a *lot* of detail in there-- but sometimes it was precisely those details that made it so appealing. The chapter on the ability of selection by humans to produce different appearances and traits in domesticated animals was wonderful. I was particularly struck by the parts about pigeons. If you've gotten that far, has anyone seen the tumbling pigeons he describes? I'm having trouble picturing how that could work.
The book is full of details I didn't know--it makes me feel ignorant, but in a good kind of "I didn't know that; where can I find out more?" way.
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