This book is meant for an esoteric audience and was never meant to have a mass market appeal (although it has sold over 3 million copies in the last 2 decades). This book is generally read for either a graduate school class or for management training. This is one of many business books that is a hybrid of a fictional story and textbook content. That aside, the author was good at developing a story line that kept me intrigued and the content (theory of constraint) is interesting to me as a student, but I wouldn't recommend this book widely to others. If you are a industrial plant manager, it may be one of the most important books you'll ever read....if that not you....I wouldn't touch this. 3 out of 5
