This book was completely the opposite of it. My teacher understood the significance and clarity of this book and relied on it heavily, the more I read it, the more I understood the topic. Lathi is writing about a very dry and tough to understand topic when he chose to write about continuous and discrete time systems. But this book is anything but boring and dry.

He spruces up the language so that it is interesting, and readable; and his explanations about even the most complicated topics are very understandable thanks to many illustrations and examples done in the book.

If you have a choice in your class to buy this book or borrow it, buy it and you will not regret it, this book will be helpful in learning, and prove to be a valuable resource after you finish with the class.

Any text that has the sense of humor to say,

"The inverse transform of none of the above functions is directly available in Table 6.1"

is OK in my book.

In addition to moments of wit and the occasional cartoon, Lathi's text is illuminating, coherent, and understandable. The ability to see inside the student's head and anticipate difficult material which may be misunderstood is the mark of a fine text book author, and Lathi demonstrates this with grace. Employing humor, metaphor, and fluid writing, Lathi has written a text that is pain-free to read and perhaps occasionally even pleasurable.

If teachers taught how Lathi writes, our education problems would be solved.