LOL. OK dude, have it your way. Mastering the Chess Openings by John Watson is a crap book.
To the original poster...
I wouldn't expect a repertoire book for White for all of the black responses to 1.e4 be the "be all to end all" on such a wide ranging bunch of openings. One book won't answer all your questions on 1.e4.. Not even Mastering the Chess |Openings. You may like some of the authors choices, you may like most of them, but I doubt you will like them all. Why limit yourself to only one choice, and someone else's choice to boot? You may not even like some of the authors choices. If it was me getting started with 1.e4, I would take a broad overview till I found the variations that best suited my style, then decide for myself and dig deeper in the theory. But that will be more work than having someone spoon feed you one answer for every possibility.
Over and out
Over and out.
To the original poster...
I wouldn't expect a repertoire book for White for all of the black responses to 1.e4 be the "be all to end all" on such a wide ranging bunch of openings. One book won't answer all your questions on 1.e4.. Not even Mastering the Chess |Openings. You may like some of the authors choices, you may like most of them, but I doubt you will like them all. Why limit yourself to only one choice, and someone else's choice to boot? You may not even like some of the authors choices. If it was me getting started with 1.e4, I would take a broad overview till I found the variations that best suited my style, then decide for myself and dig deeper in the theory. But that will be more work than having someone spoon feed you one answer for every possibility.
Over and out
Over and out.