Perry, I'd have to agree. The book was useful when it was published 5 years ago. It's also free. But maybe we've reached the point where there are other options focused on "The NET way: ABC" building purely on being productive in NET without the Fox angle. Which is not a swipe at his book which was at least as good as other offerings when he wrote it.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1