Considering how little information there is out there on WPF, it is no surprise that I eagerly read Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed by Adam Nathan, especially considering how much I appreciated his previous book on .NET/COM interop. I was hoping for more depth and less breadth, but I think I'll have to wait for someone to write "WPF Internals" for that. Otherwise, this book was quite good; I especially enjoyed the full color code samples and screenshots. This book makes a good companion to Petzold's book, since it teaches different things and takes a different approach. I certainly recommend it to all WPF programmers.

It probably isn't really fair for me to review Why Software Sucks... and What You Can Do About It, by David Platt, since he's not writing this book for programmers, but rather for the users of our software. I didn't enjoy the book as much as I had hoped, partially because it's rather more crass than I would like. Still, the book gives good information -- consumers do need to be convinced that bad user interface isn't their fault, and they need to be encouraged to punish the bad and reward the good with their dollars and feedback.