Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Cogent and Stimulating!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Really, it seems like a treatise on common sense. If you want to understand something, dividing it up into smaller and smaller pieces is not the way. I think, as others have mentioned, his simple real life illustrative examples (the Deceitful Turkey?) are a bit off, but don't derail the book. "Whether the renormalization of the universe is generated by proximity to a phase transition is not known one way or the other, for one of its effects is to prevent you from inferring anything about short length scales from measurements made at long ones, just as happens with ordinary matter." I'll put up with a little lame imagery to get to cool ideas like that.Ken Coffman is the author of Real World FPGA Design with Verilog and Hartz String Theory.