1. Every book on computers, or anything technical should read this guys blog before they get fire up the word processor. 2. My biggest gripe about 99.9% of COmputer programming books are: They are long. They are poorly written. They read like a telephone books. 3. I once heard one famous programmer state, I won't read a programming book with more than 500 pages. I think he was off by 400 pages? 4. I truly believe if…
writers get paid per word, still wondering why 80% of book has no substance?
Peter Van der Linden included a recipe for Oobleck¹ on the last few pages of "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets". It's right after the Phony C++ Job Interview Answer Key and right before the paragraph-long rant about Dr Seuss's influence on the software engineering profession.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-newtonian_fluid#Oobleck