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Title: B-o-o-o-o-o-ringggggggg
Review: I bought this book mainly going by the O'Reilly name which usually has excellent books (Java, Motif), but this book is like listening to a theoretical computer science prof. drone on and on... It literally took me three months to get through just chapter two. I kept falling asleep every time I tried to read it! Most of chapter two consists of cut-and-pasted bulleted lists each one defining a zillion terms w/o justification. So, we don't say 'acquired', we say 'captured'. Great! Can you say 'pedantic', boys and girls?Bottom line is that when an author keeps using big obfuscated words for no good reason where simpler ones would do (e.g. 'facilitate' v/s 'ease') you know you are in trouble. He is obviously writing to impress his colleagues, not to educate his readers...
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