[colsandurz]

This comment is over-the-top mean and unfair.

Alex was my advisor in grad school and I only know him to be honest, hard working and technically sound. I haven’t read this book closely but I’m not convinced that it’s poorly written based on cherry picking one paragraph from it.

[kragen]

Maybe someone else was sabotaging his work. Is it possible to cherry-pick one paragraph from it that is well-written and technically sound? Because I gave up after Chapter 1 and the beginning of Chapter 2. Maybe you could ask Alex what he thinks of how the book turned out and post his answer here?

I agree that it's mean, and I feel kind of bad about it, but I think the interests of the hundreds of people who are apparently interested in reading a book about software-defined radio outweigh the interests of the four authors to not have their feelings hurt. The problem is not that they've written this colossal pile of garbage; there's nothing wrong with that, and it's often the first step toward writing something worth reading. The problem is that that pile is being promoted (by Analog Devices, no less) as a useful way to learn about software-defined radio.