When this becomes your bible...

Hmm interesting book. I am also in the process of refactoring not so old codes.

Overall a great reference book, will surely help you in taming the beast that previous devs might have left for you to fix.

This book is poorly written has many unnoticeable jumps and tries to make everything look elitist

Hmm. As I have been working with legacy for a long time, I haven’t found anything new in this book. This is a huge collection of refactoring patterns. However, it’s good to know how these tricks are officially called. It becomes usefull in discussions when you want to sound smarter than you are.