The Construction and Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories (2nd ed: 85178)

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Summary: More like cliffs notes
Review: -Pros: 1)The book gives a generalized brief overview 2)lists some good reference material 3)Some novel ideas 4)Great philosophy for deterrence and incognito regarding the ensuing communistic metamorphosis of our allegedly free nation 5)The best learning experience you could gain from this book is how to begin to act and carry on a secret identity. (However you would again just be dampening your sponge.)
-Recommendations to reader: If you have the time you can get this info other ways. If you don't have time and this is the first piece of literature you have had the opportunity to have exposure to, by all means read it. Other wise if you have the time, money, and a strong desire to learn and be thorough about it then see the list at the bottom of the page for much more in depth research, "Customers who bought titles by Jack B. Nimble also bought titles by these authors."
[Note to Author: I mean no disrespect to the author. After all I haven't written a book, but from a readers stand point you could use some more critiquing.]

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Summary: make sure you look further than this!
Review: if you are "academically" interested then this book is pretty good stuff, but if "someone you know" is considering the application of any of its content then you/they should be aware that a lot of fester's stuff (although i'm not positive on this one specifically) has been criticized, and in a few specific cases picked to pieces in places like alt.drugs.chemistry on usenet - for it's accuracy and the value of the actual application of some of his instructions. It'd be worth doing some search engine research to see where people have challenged his advice as sometimes misleading and occasionally dangerous.

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Summary: No room on the shelf for this one
Review: This book is aimed at creating a major industrial sized clandestine lab. This is not one for the closet chemist. It's short and it's outdated.