That's the thing, even as an academic book it falls short. It feels disjointed, unorganized and poorly written - and most frustratingly, incomplete. The reason

That's the thing, even as an academic book it falls short. It feels disjointed, unorganized and poorly written - and most frustratingly, incomplete. The reason for Goodfellow's popularity is that it was publish in 2014 right at the turn of exponential interest in Deep Learning after AlexNet. It took off and became popular, but readers now feel it is stale for the aforementioned reasons.