Absolutely. I had the extraordinary pleasure of picking up, on a whim, the novel The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. Unaware of his father's prestige and budding recognition as an author in his own right, I found the book itself to be a lucid and gripping read the entire way through.

Hate to sound like an advertisement, but I consider it to be the most fun I've had with a story in a long, long time.