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Title: Book is schizophrenic
Review: I have a number of problems with this book. First, it doesn't cover 7.0 in any depth. 7.0 is shut away in an appendix in the back of the book. The rest of the book focuses on mostly 4.2 code, with some 6.5 coverage. So, right off the bat, it's out of date. Second, there's little continuity in this work. It's all over the place topic-wise. It's like the authors dug up all the neato code they'd written over the years and wrote a book about it, with no thought to actually covering the subject at hand systematically or logically. Lastly, the book is uneven. I suppose this is due to multiple authors, but it's just a guess. Whatever the case, the book jumps from being overly formal to converational on a regular basis. It's like the book is a bit schizophrenic.
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