OT: Object Desing Book Recommendations

There is one – that Rocky recommended to me couple of years back, and it changed my whole view on software design.  It is called “Object Thinking” by MS Press – Dr David West.

It is not one of those “Design Pattern” books that puts everything in these nice little compartments, and assumes that us developers do not have to “think” but just follow these pre-established scenarios, and assemble enterprise applications as more of a Lego puzzle.  This is the type of book that gives you perspective on history of OO, dissects between successful and simple approaches to software design and gives real-world examples of that.

This is not a C#, VB, or Java specific book.  This is a type of book that makes you question your decisions in each part of software development process and helps you guide, through experience of others to better  approaches.

Rocky's is the best book on applied design I have yet found.  If there are others worth looking at then I would love to know as well.