I have very mixed feelings about this book. Early on, it made me quite mad. But somewhere in the middle, it suddenly started to make sense. By the end, even though I still didn't agree with everything, I really appreciated the point that it's trying to make, and can agree with it.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of problems: so many of the examples are either bogus or have glaring problems of their own, there's a lot of bloat and back-patting in the prose, and to say this book is programming language agnostic is a massive lie. There are large sections devoted to the most Java-centric issues and examples, and it renders a lot of the advice from these sections meaningless for anyone using a different language.
My recommendation: start with the last chapter. If you feel like anything it says doesn't make sense or is unjustified, go back and read the related section. Reading the whole thing is a recipe for frustration.