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Title: A Pain in the neck
Review: Yes, it's comprehensive. 1400 pages of unreadable dribble. I had trouble keeping my eyes open. Worse than Wrox at taking pieces of code then demonstrating a billion line examples, explaining them line by line. The explanations are usually a few pages forward in the book so you have to read a sentence, flip back a few pages, read the next sentence, etc ad naseum. Not for beginners. Make sure you have a grip on C++ before attempting this. If you already know Java you might like the book because it covers a lot like Cell phone and PDA tools.
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