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Title: Don't waste your money
Review: Essentially this is a beginner's guide by an author who substitutes enthusiasm and a gushing prose style for any real erudition. It's rescued from unreadability by the expert editing of Mr Breaux, one of the few real experts in the field. But there's nothing new here, and the book reads like the kind of frothy puff piece you'd read in an airline in flight magazine. New readers would be well advised to purchase instead Barnaby Conrad's book "Absinthe - History in a Bottle", also available from Amazon. Conrad is a masterful writer, who's consulted widely and read all the primary sources. His book is unequalled in English, and superbly produced and illustrated as well. If you already have Conrad, there's no reason to buy Wittels's book as well.
