Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: This book is not for beginner

I don't have a background of distributed computing before. I chose this book because it is available on library for borrowing. In general, big disappointed.The good of this book is the pseudo codes were re-written by the author to make it more readable, but that's all the good I can find for this book. I think this book is not for beginners because it is just a collection of papers. The author presents the materials almost the same way as the original papers, which make it very hard for beginners to understand . For every topic, I need to read several times to get the ideas. After reading 1/3 of this book, I switch to Lynch's book.