I just noticed a couple of new, in-depth reviews of Ryan Dewsbury’s book, Google Web Toolkit Applications. Masud Idris at developerlife didn’t seem to like the book that much. Here’s an excerpt from his book review:

At the end of the day, I found the book to be ok. The book was useful to me and I learned quite a bit from it. It just took forever to get through it due to the average writing and confusing code.

In contrast, Joseph Ottinger at TheServerSide thought the book was excellent. From his review:

Altogether, Google Web Toolkit Applications is an excellent book, well worth the list price of $49.99 (USD) if you’re doing any serious GWT development. It’s well written, very much in depth, and shows application patterns that will be very useful for anyone using GWT, in many cases showing concepts that are very difficult to find elsewhere.

It’s always interesting and informative to hear other people’s opinions. Has anyone else received their copy of the book yet? What did you guys think of it?