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Gee, could you be more vague?

I think looking through the table of contents and the "tour of the book" for C# for Experienced Programmers will give a good impression of the crap that fills their overly large books. According to Amazon, the book is 1456 pages. I flipped through it trying to find somewhere I could start reading so that I wouldn't waste my time learning what a combobox is, or have them explain to me the history of the world wide web (in a C# book?!), that curly braces start and end blocks, or what an 'if' does, etc. If this is a book for "experienced programmers", I can't imagine what programming languages the authors imagine their readers have experience with.

All of that, and there isn't a piece of tight prose in the book. Their books are repetitive and painful to read.