I stumbled across my old copy of "Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX”.
It got a 1-star Amazon review: "I read this book in a night and found it to be not only verbose and incoherent, but uninformative. I walked away from this book learning almost nothing about ActiveX.”
Well, no kidding. I wonder if they found out that HGTTG has little practical advice on real-world hitchhiking.