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Comment author: bramflakes 02 June 2012 07:27:03PM 0 points [-]

What is the general quality of X For Dummies books? Is there a lot of variance?

Comment author: David_Gerard 02 June 2012 09:02:57PM 2 points [-]

Where I know anything about the field, they look good to me. The nonprofit one made me go "AAAAAAAA WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS 25 YEARS AGO (because I was too young and stupid to even think of asking)" which made me think well of it. There exists Reiki for Dummies, which is of course a how-to for a comprehensively bogus field; I haven't cracked it open. They started as software manuals and branched out into everything. Um, give them a spin, I'd say.