Sorry, but blaming a single book for not learning something when there are an enormous number of other resources (and have been all along -- _why's was a long time ago, but so were, say Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails and the others mentioned here, and there has long been tons free on the web) probably means _you_ were actually the main cause.
i don't have time to commit to learning any random programming language that pops into my field of vision at all costs.
a language is a tool. a tool was being marketed to me as something of high quality. i tried it, but because of poor instructions (this book), didn't get the results i was expecting.
so i cut my losses and moved on to other tools that actually worked for me.
I feel like you might be a bit confused about the relationship between the world and one random person.