[chimprich]

Clean Code is dreadful, or at least the programming examples are.

It was a good book of its time in that it was influential and encouraged people to think more deeply about how to make code readable, but even when it was published I thought it had some terrible advice.

It's probably still just about worth reading, as long as you ignore all the code examples and appreciate that some of the thinking is out of date, and a lot of the rest is controversial at best.

I also find the style grates, as "Uncle Bob" is far too full of himself and e.g. "rips apart" someone's code to produce a worse refactor.