Book recommendation - maybe not!

[strandjs at gmail.com (John Strand)]

Dear. Mr. McGrew,

No one remember the reviews about good book.  They really remember the bad
ones.

A few choice lines to throw around when talking about a flaming turd:

"Made me want to carve my eyes out with a spoon...  Any spoon."

"Like masturbating with a cheese crater.  Interesting, but mostly painful."

And my favorite:

"Proof that Jesus died in vain."

-strandjs

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Robert McGrew <wesleymcgrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> I requested and received a review copy of this, on the off chance that
> it fell into the category of "weird and eccentric, but completely
> brilliant" (see Russell Walter's "Secret Guide to Computers", amazing
> work, do check this out).
>
> It doesn't fall into this category at all.
>
> It's exactly as bad as you are imagining.  I don't have the PDF handy
> to cite exactly what, but I do recall that it's poorly formatted,
> poorly written, chews up a lot of pages with lists and screenshots,
> and contains a lot of information that is just plain wrong.  (Just
> like a lot of non-novelty-press books I get! :) )
>
> It was bad enough that I just didn't even want to write anything about
> it.  I figured there wasn't much risk that readers of my site would
> care to spend any money on it anyways, so I'd just be beating on it
> for the humor.  That's fun too sometimes, but I just couldn't bring
> myself to spend any more time with it.
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just found this and wondered how I'd got on so long in security without
> it.
> > http://learn-how-to-hack.net/index.php
> >
> > Quote: "You will aquire knowledge nonexistant to 99.9% of the people
> > in the world!"
> >
> > I want to be in that 0.1%!
> >
> > Follow the link at the bottom to get to this page:
> > http://rafayhackingarticles.blogspot.com/
> >
> > I think it should be in all our RSS feeds.
> >
> > Enjoy
> >
> > Robin
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