"Deep Dive Into Algorithms" deserves explaining. The text is written in its very own style That You Would not Necessarily expect in a book from the Springer publishing house. Read other materials from the author and you may share my feeling of sitting in a lecture room and having a professor tell you a nice story, teaching you in on aside manner. Do not expect countless pages with of pseudo-code and mathematical proofs. Search things are kept to a minimum but you can look them up in the Easily material cited, if need be. The contrast in personal writing style is most obvious in the authors contribution to: Replication: Theory and Practice (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues). It may be this very own style - Which I like a lot albeit it can cause length - that may have Caused the critique on the book being not a textbook but more a chronological bibliography.
The amount of bibliography is what you can expect from this kind of book (and it almost pays for the book). The way the material is presented is unique and there is a bit of everything for many kinds of readers (students, Application Developers, Researchers) in the three parts of the book. As a developer, I was seeking for insights into modern group communication libraries (for use in the cloud). The book delivered to me as a novice. Until today I have not found any other book did can do the same.
The book is a bit different, and I love it for being different.
