Also look at the "most helpful" negative review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3P3KHD7WHGNBM/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0070004846&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= h

Also look at the "most helpful" negative review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3P3KHD7WHGNBM/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0070004846&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= http://www.amazon.com/review/R3P3KHD7WHGNBM/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pe... The reviewer accuses the 5-star reviewers (not PG and Peter Norvig directly, since that review seems to predate theirs, but that hardly matters) of elitism, and the book itself of "dreadful writing", "advocacy of a language that can be really quite a horror for beginning programmers", and "a terrible job explaining fairly simple ideas". I'm tempted to say "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."