Title: Best Java book of 5 started so far
Product review: I felt Laura Lemay did a great job for the first 13 chapters, she has a way with words. The remaining chapters were understandable, but some of the concepts were relatively muddled. Perhaps multiple authors (including Laura) on most of those were the cause. (And perhaps it was simply that I read the book without coding any of it. What I'm saying is: It's so well written, this PowerBuilder developer learned Java without sitting in front of a tube).The final chapter, "Under the Hood", lived up to its title and tied it all together well. I picked up and layed down several other Java books due to frustration over bad grammar, redundancy, editing mistakes or ludicrous example code. This doesn't suffer from those problems. Very good read, overall. Can't wait to dig into "Teach Yourself Java 2 Platform in 21 Days".
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