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Take No Prisoners: Destroying Enemies With Dirty and Malicious Tricks
Brand New Loompanics Unlimited Softcover O
118 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1990
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December 4, 2011
This was a very juvenile how-to 'revenge' book. Almost all of the plots are two dimensional, and don't seem to have involved a lot of cunning. For example, flooding a mark's basement, or placing a gun in his luggage as he's boarding a plane are plans that SOUND good, but are often impractical. Other ideas, like boobytrapping items with razor blades, are sometimes useful...but the way the author describes events that are to unfold is unimaginative. With two or three exceptions, Mr. Nasty leaves a LOT of the planning & execution to the reader's imagination (perhaps out of fear that, as was the case with 'Hitman: A Guide For Independent Contractors', he might wind up facing lawsuits resulting from his publication).
The other chief complaint is, that there are no illustrations with any of the schemes listed in this book. Loompanics, (the book's original publisher) offered the services of their in-house artists to help writers who lacked graphic arts skills. Of course, there is a cost incurred for that assistance, and I strongly suspect that the author here declined to include any simply to maximize his profits, in exchange for the lowest, minimal output.
So, to be blunt, but honest, I'm in the process of trying to figure out what to do with this book, which has been collecting dust on my bookshelf for the last eight years. Goodwill won't take it. Nor will any public library. I certainly wouldn't pass it on to a friend for fear of that being seen as an endorsement of some sort on my part. Part of the title alluded to being able to "destroy" your enemies, but it falls far short of the mark there as well. Frankly, most of the tactics in this $12.95 mistake will merely irritate your foe just enough to guarantee a reprisal. NONE of them offer much in the way of security against anyone who's even slightly more creative than 'Mack', or the police, if your target is the sort of person who'll call 5-O.
Save your money, and hire a thug to do your dirty work. Or, wait for my literary response once I find a publisher brave enough to put something truly diabolical to print.
The other chief complaint is, that there are no illustrations with any of the schemes listed in this book. Loompanics, (the book's original publisher) offered the services of their in-house artists to help writers who lacked graphic arts skills. Of course, there is a cost incurred for that assistance, and I strongly suspect that the author here declined to include any simply to maximize his profits, in exchange for the lowest, minimal output.
So, to be blunt, but honest, I'm in the process of trying to figure out what to do with this book, which has been collecting dust on my bookshelf for the last eight years. Goodwill won't take it. Nor will any public library. I certainly wouldn't pass it on to a friend for fear of that being seen as an endorsement of some sort on my part. Part of the title alluded to being able to "destroy" your enemies, but it falls far short of the mark there as well. Frankly, most of the tactics in this $12.95 mistake will merely irritate your foe just enough to guarantee a reprisal. NONE of them offer much in the way of security against anyone who's even slightly more creative than 'Mack', or the police, if your target is the sort of person who'll call 5-O.
Save your money, and hire a thug to do your dirty work. Or, wait for my literary response once I find a publisher brave enough to put something truly diabolical to print.
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