This is an obvious ad to sell a book, but I wish more publishers would let you read one of the chapters without buying it first. Stroustrup has a lot of books a

This is an obvious ad to sell a book, but I wish more publishers would let you read one of the chapters without buying it first. Stroustrup has a lot of books and I have read some of them so he is a known entity, but I see ads like this all the time from authors I know nothing about. The preface and table of contents are good information, but they don't give you a good sense of the author's writing style.