Rating:  - great book with a problem...
I enjoyed this book. It is definitely not for beginners - the high-level treatment suited my style very well. His initial exposition is especially clear and precise. Mr. Onion did not go into too great detail about aspects that I could look up on my own, choosing to focus more on theoretical details/implementation recommendations which are hard to figure out if you are a beginning ASP.NET programmer such as myself.
The snag: He refers to original ASP programming all the time. Why? This is clearly horrible style. I don't know ASP, so I have to skip over the sections which he begins with "Traditional ASP only supported blah blah blah." Then, I become confused because he said something pertinent to the rest of his explanation, so I have to go back, think about Traditional ASP (which is a clear waste of time), figure out his point, and go on.
A great book if you are already an experienced programmer with knowledge of .NET, web programming, etc.
Rating: - Great book
This is a good book, easy to understand and covers a lot of material.
Rating: - A great text type book for ASP.NET
Clearly this is the best ASP.NET book I have ever read.
Rating:  - An absolute must-read for ASP.NET developers!
Essential ASP.NET is 100% to-the-point containing very useful information with no fluff included. I particularly enjoyed the HTTP pipeline chapter. The entire book contains info that every ASP.NET developer should know.
Rating: - The best ASP.NET book!
I just finished reading this book, I'd say it's the best ASP.NET book! I highly recommend it!
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