frytaylor- Nice that you had to the time to finally take a look at that book  I bought a physical copy back in 2002, but nice that you can just view it for free now.  It's a little dated now, however I think it's worth someone to read it because you will have a much better understand of patterns and TA, and it's free.  Also, a lot of people tend to draw patterns too loosely, such as a couple trendlines that look sort of like a ascending triangle and then calling it that, even though it doesn't meet the definition of a true ascending triangle.  In my experience this is VERY common, too many people are too loose in defining patterns. 

His updated version you have to buy of course and it's like 700 pages, which is just massive, really is an encyclopedia.  I don't not personally read that book however, though I wouldn't mind having it on my desk as a reference to look something up.

Bulkowski's books can be kind of dry reading for most people because they read like a dictionary/encyclopedia or a math book; i.e. here's the facts, here'st he results, and here's the conclusions, there are no trade stories or other filler material to make it flow more like other books