The book covers a lot of aspects of photographic composition (colours, lines, focus, framing, etc.) and has a lot of pictures to illustrate the various topics. So if you want an illustrated catalogue of compositional effects this book is indeed a good choise.However, to me it has the same weakness as other similar books: It doesn't really help me when I'm actually out there trying to make good pictures.
Sure, the book does offer some good and specific advice on, e.g., choise of filters and types of film (although I shoot digital myself).
But it does not really tell me how to practise and utilize and work with all these composition tools that I'm shown, so if I want to learn them I still have to figure out how to invent my own training.
In stead the book shows what a good photographer can do once these tools have been learned.
