Jeremy Silman vs. Michael Stean

Hi guys. Recently  I borrowed this Silman's book, how to reasses your chess, red it and I find it very good and easy to understand. Greedy as I am, I started to look for more books about positional play and I found that Stean's "simple chess" has very good critics, but I saw that it has many common topics as Silman's book, so I wanted to ask you if I should read it anyway, or look for something else ?

thanks

Stean is a very concise overview.  You can finish it in a day or two.  Silman is an epic.  You can study it for a year.  Both are good.  Perhaps when you are a beginner, and just need a short introduction to positional play, you can read Simple Chess, and then go on about studying your tactics and playing.  Then as you get more advanced and positional grinds become more important, you read HTRYC (or you could go into My System or another positional course).

My preference is for Simple Chess.  I find that Silman tends to go overboard, and his tone is a little difficult for me to handle (though many people seem to like it).

Thanks guys, I will read it then. @9kick9, I'll check your sugestion out when I finish with this one.

@kponds, u missunderstood me. I DID read Silman's book, but i saw that Stean's book also talks about weak squares, pawns, etc., so that's why I asked if it's worth reading it too.

It depends. Is your positional understanding at GM level yet? If not, there's more to learn.

books are a waste of time. thats why your still 1100

This is true only if you don't know how to read.  Otherwise the statement is completely untrue.

If you spent more time with books, you might be 2700.

I really liked Silman's 3rd edition of Reassess Your Chess, I read it than I gained 200 points quickly after that.  I now own copies of the 3rd and 4th edition.