A very informative book. Its writing alternated between scholarly, witty, and forced - the latter likely being the result of the writing process being based on turning lecture notes into an accepted book format. The main reason I rate it no more than three and a half stars, however, is the fact that it was oftentimes less focused and less informative than a book would need to be in order to earn a higher rating. Still, some of the chapters were very well done.
A very informative book. Its writing alternated between scholarly, witty, and forced - the latter likely being the result of the writing process being based on turning lecture notes into an accepted book format. The main reason I rate it no more than three and a half stars, however, is the fact that it was oftentimes less focused and less informative than a book would need to be in order to earn a higher rating. Still, some of the chapters were very well done.