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Title: Too much flack plus imprecise language
Review: I did not like this book much at all. It contains an excessive amount of Microsoft-style flack where deficits are described as advantages. Also, the metalanguage used to describe the object-oriented elements of Java keeps changing from page to page in a very disconcerting way.There is a surprising incidence of just plain incorrect English, by anyone's grammar book, in addition to a good bit of fog. The lack of verbal precision gives me the distinct feeling that the author, Naughton, was not an actual developer of Java but rather a "shaker and mover" in an executive capacity.Given all that, I think that if you are not overly sensitive to flack and lack of precision you might be able to learn quite well from this book, as others have liked it very much.
