Title: do not expect to get suspense
Product review: Although Doug Lea works for Sun and built essential parts of the Java platform, this does not make him a good author. I had to get up to date with Java threading and bought this book. Mistake. From the computer science standpoint it is excellent, but as a typical project constrained programmer I found it absolutely boring. The author steps through the different chapters and subchapters as if he was trying to fill a "this is all I know about threads" list with life. No suspense, no "I could use that", no explaination of common pitfalls... I fell asleep a couple of times reading this book. Next to "deadlocking" Java threads can pose lots of other problems that this book does not cover. For instance threads and Swing or building an event dispatcher that works. A book that covers all that and that I hereby recommend is "Taming Java Threads" from Allen Holub. Two stars, ...it is solid but not useful...
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