[bluedino]

My favorite Petzold book is 'Programming Windows 95'

[bena]

I got the Fifth Edition. A book that's served me well. Learning the Win32 API, holding open doors, improvised weapon, it does it all.

[formerly_proven]

My sample has a gigantic splat on its back because I threw it at some insect many years ago and it was positively crushed by The Petzold's impact force. Never cleaned that off because it added to the aesthetic of raggedness.

[qbasic_forever]

As doors got heavier it became necessary to add Petzold's windows programming with MFC book to the stack too, another massive (and great at the time) tome.

[Dwedit]

It is a very large book indeed.

[matwood]

Definitely a classic from back when books were sold by weight.

[JJMcJ]

It's a large book but has very little fluff or padding in it.

Covers a huge amount of ground.

I learned a lot from it back when I did some Windows work back around 2000 to 2005.

Also MFC.

[matwood]

It was an awesome book, and was basically required for win32 programming in the late 90s.