Practical Mono (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

This is the poorest excuse for a programming book that I have purchased including many from Apress. It is very dated even if only a couple years old, does not reflect the current state of Mono. Commands are plain wrong. The author doesn't complete instructions and the sample scripts are incomplete. I finally gave up at the ADO.Net chapter where he almost tells you how to setup the database in MySQL. The book is in hardcover which my give rise to its high price but it less than 400 pages in length and given the depth of the table of contents, most subject are covered as deeply as a rock being skipped across a lake, never to sink.