Giving off an impression as the Swiss Army knife of Linux books, "MultiTool Linux" by Schwarz, Anderson, Curtis, Murphy and published by Addison-Wesley, this book tries to solve very specific problems with Linux. Let's see whether it succeeds to do so or not.
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The first chapters do seem useful, so the question then is: Is there a book that talks about the stuff from the first half, without the less useful second half?
Also, how in-depth is the first half, is it could enough for someone who has never looked at setting up samba, email, or ip masquerading before?
You can always buy the book and only use the first half, there is no one stopping you from that. As for the second half, it may be a bit useful to completely clueless users, so it has its usefulness. 
>Also, how in-depth is the first half
It is pretty much, step by step. Check the PDF I link. You will see how the style-writting looks like.
for hundreds of 'recipes' of specific solutions to specific problems Linux users (as opposed to administrators) encounter every day. The author uses Debian but someone with moderate knowledge can use use the directions on any distribution (or even Win32 with Cygwin).
but, what's KWord gotta do with this book? :-D
This is just the generic icon we use for book reviews, office suites and the like.
was just kidding :-)
(Besides, I didn't know modern books used scrolls and ink feather pens...)
