Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: buy the Gooch & Gooch book instead

This book was an expensive mistake. There is almost nothing in it that can't be found in the Gooch & Gooch book at half the price. Other reviewers comment on the extensive pseudo code -- I found it thin and trivial. Just when a topic gets interesting the book moves on to another subject. It lacks depth.Mr. & Mrs. Gooch have a far superior book.This is the second Morgan Kaufmann book I've purchased. It seems they ONLY publish derivative works at inflated prices. (The first was a book on OpenGL which covered nothing that one couldn't find in th Red Book.) I shall by nothing more from them.