Good tutorial style introduction to Cocoa, Objective-C, XCode and Mac programming.

It seems likely that this is a book version of one of Big Nerd Ranch's Cocoa classes, as the book is very focussed on hands on examples.

A lot of the chapters are of the form "now do this..." as you follow the instructions and end up with an application by the end of the chapter, hopefully understanding what you did along the way.

It's not so useful as a reference book, but hopefully the online documentation covers that aspect.

It doesn't go into anything into a lot of depth, this is really an easy to follow tutorial, with lots of pictures, aimed at newbies.

Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy this. I'd been keen to read Murakami for some time and although I enjoyed it at first, the plot seemed to lose its way and whatever underlying message he was trying to convey was lost on me.

I failed to make a connection to the characters and just thought it was sad how everyone was screwed up.

Murakami seems like a very interesting author but this book never seemed to get traction for me.

Thought provoking and often humorous, this book may not show the way to happiness, but it does a very good job of pointing out how the shortcomings of our thinking process lead to us all making similar mistakes when it comes to finding happiness.