[kh_hk]

It was a gift for participating in a local Google event, sorry if it wasn't clear enough. By not 'buying it' I wanted to highlight that my opinion on the comment would be inherently negative, as I am not in the target audience of the book (as in, if in a store, I would not buy it).

Yes, I have read it. It is not a terrible book, heck, it might be good for what it is meant to be (guidance for disoriented developers), but it is far away from being the best development book, and thus should not be called what it is not.

[blatherard]

FWIW, you're faulting him for a claim he isn't making. He says it's the best development book he's read, not the best development book in general. There's a big difference.

[crux]

You think that the unmarked claim for "best development book" has the implicit qualification "including books I haven't read"?