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BooksToAvoid

What books did you wish you had never bought or read?

From BookListPage. See also BooksToGiveAway, BooksVeryUsefulOnce, BooksToReferTo, and BooksWhoseFirstHalfIsWorthReading

After all, if someone has discovered that a book is a waste of time and money, why should you need to repeat that experience?

On the other hand, this list could be interesting to debate... I keep a list of books I disliked:

Books I Remember I've Disliked: A rarer continuing story

• Foundation For Object Relational Databases by C. J. Date & Hugh Darwen -- dreadfully pedantic and oppositional
• The Capability Maturity Model by Marc Paulk et al -- an example of writing by committee
• Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald Clifton -- disappointing compared to First Break All the Rules
• Work 2.0 by Bill Jensen -- simplistic and deterministic generalizations
• Rise And Fall Of The American Programmer by Edward Yourdon -- panic & doom, prototypical of outsourcing overseas

If you want the reviews, see .

-BobLee 2003.05.07

• Managing Your Boss, by Sandi Mann

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