The $8,539 book Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29 is creating some heated discussion in its Amazon reviews:
Wow, what a great book. It’s a real shame what they’re doing with the movie. Why change it to silicon-9? Just to make the title catchier?!? Ridiculous.
I’m a big fan of the NMR genre, but this book was really just phoned in. I mean, "Chemical Shifts of P-31 Compounds" had me on the edge of my seat, and "Hyperfine Coupling Constants of the Pnictogens" had a little something for everybody. I can say this with the conviction that only comes with love when I say that "Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29" is total crap.
Do not be fooled! Lechner and Marsmann are mental infants. Every third year grad student knows that you can’t manipulate subvolume III/35A with nuclei B-11 without first lowering the magnetic replicator to -300 ohms! Not to mention that unless you lower the cylindrical volume 4 quarks you’ll freeze 90% of the atoms! And don’t get me started on nucleus Si-29, you can’t possibly think anybody is going to believe that subvolume III/35F can be examined without a particle shifter! Please!
Almost as good are the reviews for 1 gallon of Tuscan Whole Milk (which, sadly, is no longer available).