Title: Other reviewers must be Ayres' pals
Product review: I'm always embarrassed when I let good reviews of a book pursuade me to buy it, sight unseen, and it proves to be a turkey. Such was the case with this one. I read some good reviews on the Web about it, then clicked a couple of buttons and ordered it online without having really looked at it in a store. What a mistake this turned out to be! This book is a mere reproduction of MSDN and the Inprise/Corel docs. I didn't find the example code helpful or even fresh -- it appears to either be copied from MSDN or directly translated from it. It's a hefty book, but, unfortunately, it's real value to the developer is correspondingly light.
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