Book Review: LINQ Quickly

I've been reading another book from Packt Publishing, called "LINQ Quickly".  Again, it's a pretty short book, coming in at 250 pages.  The author does a decent job at explaining the basis of LINQ and the various implementations, such as LINQ to SQL, and so on.  What would have been a welcome addition to this book is a more practical approach to the technology.  Perhaps by building a real application along the way.  There is an appendix for just that, but it's a disappointing 7 pages.  The book's subtitle mentions it being a practical guide but I didn't see that.

If you want a brief overview of what's possible with LINQ and the various implementations, you'll probably find the same information for free across the web.  I was hoping for more of a real-world introduction.