I can't promise you'd follow all the technical details. I think the book does quite well at telling a good story even if you are not following the details, and that a lot of the "tricks" would be comprehensible, even if the basic techniques were not. As I said, I followed everything, but I'm probably in that class of reader that, if I'm not following, then you are doing something very wrong.

It does contain plenty of examples to illustrate how things work, which I'm sure helps a lot.