The book needed an Editor

I purchased this book "used" - received it in the mail today. I payed a fraction of the published price - however, I have to say, I am having a huge reaction of repulsion to this book - regardless of the price.

I have a few years of .Net Coding, and decades of programming experience. I know enough to realize that there are some really beginning things in this book, and some concepts that are just a bit past a beginner. I find the writing style irratic and irritating.

It could be that part of the problem is that the publisher did not put the authors paragraphs through an Editorial team and make the author keep his style clear and simple. (A technical reviewer would not do that) The Editorial team would make sure that the English states a theme and stays on topic to a point of clarity that really seems to be missing in what I have seen so far. If there was an Editorial team, they missed the boat - a book should never have gone to print this bad.

Only one other technical book has ever created such a strong repulsion before and that was over 10 years ago. That older book sounded like they were too full of themselves - I cannot point to that in this - at least so far it just seems to be extremely irratic in its presentation to the point that I find it terribly annoying.

I am not even sure that the hoped for "Pattern's"(e.g Gang of Four) will be fully developed in what I have seen so far. My reaction to the writing was enough to want to post a review to warn others. The book so far is really a dissapointment.

I am having a hard time trying to read this for any value due to my reaction to the writing style. Clarity and simplicity of style are not in what I have seen so far. Simply awful.

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