Actually, I found it a bit of a "dry" read....
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Seriously, 'though, most of it went over my head ('never was much of a fan of chemistry & calculations). I concluded that it's far easier to find-out your local/base water profile, then plug it & your target water profiles into any of the available calculators & let that do it all for me.
Hops book I found lacking in any real substance & information (mostly historical/geographical/commercial info.).
Yeast book is by far the best read ( read it 3 times & keep dipping back into it for reference).
Yet to read the Malt book......