Well not entirely, you did say ''looking at both of your sentences''. Which states that my English is indeed bad, but not worse than his. You definitely did not give me a compliment, that's for sure.
You forgot a dot, for that matter, you are now flaming me, I will not look at what you actually wrote but what I understand, and I hate you for that retarded reason.
Problem with these books are, is that they never explain in detail properly. For example: how to position 5 div's inside a parent. It's always 2/3 div's next to each other and never 2 left under each other + 1 center + 2 right under each other + footer for example. Of course you have to figure these kind of things out for yourself, but I don't need a book that explains this in 20 pages and doesn't make a proper summary and just put's pieces of codes on different pages and in the end you still have to figure it out for yourself. So in conclusion you're better off asking someone else for these kinds of things, maybe I've read the wrong books, I don't know.
OH WAIT, he doesn't anyway, carry on.
so is o reilly
http://oreilly.com/css-html/
no you dont have to buy them, www.thepiratebay.se