I wouldn't call it "horrible" -- many of the explanations are good and there's a lot of practical advice. But it is worth noting that AoE is an electronics book, not a circuit analysis textbook or a signals and systems textbook. The brief review in the first chapter is just that -- a review. If you want to develop a deeper intuition about how voltages and currents behave in electrical circuits, you'll have to look elsewhere.
The problem is that learning one hinges on the other, and you can't understand the practical at the depth AoE goes into without first understanding the theory.
Someone in the thread mentioned it was designed for physicists. It might be okay there. That's a kind of unique background where someone might understand the theory without the application. However, most of the time I've seen it used, it's a recipe for frustration.
