Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Helpful BUT badly written

The book offers good introduction to Flex 2 and includes many tips as well. But the big problem for this books is the writing style. The examples are usually modified/enhanced examples from previous chapters. But the authors relentlessly go through each line changes with a huge paragraph; it often looks something like "remove this line, add this component, and save". A usual half page worth of content is bloated to 3, 4 pages of tedious step-by-step instructions. I personally would prefer to see the code changes between 2 versions directly, something like a side-by-side code snippet comparison would do the trick.