Rating: 

I wish that I could give this book a better rating. The content is, for the most part, well-done. I must, however, take issue with the editing. There are so many errors in this the third edition that I doubt even a high school English teacher would accept it as a final draft. I really wonder whether the authors compiled the manuscript using emacs, or if they used one of the heavily bloated word processors on the market. Emacs would have certainly have been sufficient to mark up the text of the manuscript. This would have at least pointed out errors such as mismatched parentheses.

The content is good, although at times the authors' instructions are difficult to understand. Nevertheless I am learning from the book, and will continue to do so. Frustrating as the errors are, I am willing to set them aside in my head and plow on through the material, trying to absorb what I can before going over it again later. I just hope that the fourth edition will have better editing.