I will support Rick Rubin too. Been fashionable to hate him all of a sudden. I am not going to bother with the book probably but this podcast is great. (Farcaster turned me on to it)
All I need to always support Rick is to listen to Licensed to Ill Or Under the bridge etc
book's decent, roughly equal in quality to the podcast rubin is a good thinker, even if his approach may be aesthetically unappealing (too much "woo") for straight-jacketed techies