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WWE 35 Years of WrestleMania Review
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WWE 35 Years of WrestleMania Review

Gary Smith

The latest from the collaboration between WWE Books and DK Publishing hits bookstores everywhere on September 3rd with the release of WWE 35 Years of WrestleMania. It’s not a completely new release, but rather an updated/expanded release of a title released five years ago (30 Years of WrestleMania). I wrote a full review of that release five years ago, and I stand by that still. Because the book is pretty much the same, I’m going to repost my original review below with some slight adjustments…

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WWE RAW: The First 25 Years Review

Gary Smith

In January, WWE's flagship program, Monday Night RAW, celebrated it's 25th anniversary. It was a huge milestone and one that came near the 1,300 episode mark. Unfortunately for us fans, the actual program itself was a huge let down. While WWE creative did a poor job of celebrating the event, the folks at DK and WWE Publishing worked on the RAW: The First 25 Years book and to the surprise of no one did an excellent job. Through almost 200 pages, WWE RAW: The First 25 Years looks back on well the…

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WWE Ultimate Superstar Guide 2nd Edition
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WWE Ultimate Superstar Guide 2nd Edition Review

Gary Smith

Three years ago, WWE Books and DK Publishing released the WWE Ultimate Superstar Guide. That book featured over 200 superstar profiles of current and former WWE talent, and featured illustrations by Daz Tibbles. On March 6th, WWE and DK team up once more to publish the WWE Ultimate Superstar Guide 2nd Edition. This edition is more of the same; it features over 200 profiles of current and former stars. The big difference here, other than the inclusion of stars who weren't on the roster in 2015…

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WWE Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
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WWE Absolutely Everything You Need to Know Review

Gary Smith

The latest book release from the DK Publishing/WWE partnership dropped at the beginning of the month, and as you would expect it's a pretty good one. If you're a fan of pop culture books, you may have seen some other DK's other "Absolutely Everything You Need To Know" books for Star Wars, Marvel, and LEGO. WWE: Absolutely Everything You Need To Know is presented in that same style, and you can get an idea for what the entire book is like by the header image above and the image down below. The…

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The WWE Book of Top 10's
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The WWE Book of Top 10’s Review

Gary Smith

The partnership between WWE and DK Publishing has produced some of the best wrestling books on the market and certainly the highest quality ones. The two are set to release the latest in that line on May 9th when The WWE Book of Top 10's becomes available. It is exactly what it's titled, a list book of top 10's. There's about 200 pages and 100 lists here. This isn't the in-depth historical type books we've come to expect from the DK/WWE partnership, but just a fun look back at some past WWE and…

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Ultimate WWE Superstar Guide
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WWE Ultimate Superstar Guide Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

A couple of years ago I received the Best Buy exclusive "Avengers Illuminated 3D Lenticular Gift Set" as a birthday present, and one of the things it included was a really great 200+ hardcover book called "The Avengers: The Ultimate Character Guide." I enjoy the Marvel movies, but I'm not a comic book guy, so this book was quite valuable to me because it informed me of more than 200 of the Marvel heroes and villains. It was also just a really well done book, and in fact when I was first looking…

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Ultimate WWE Poster Collection
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WWE The Ultimate Poster Collection Review

Gary Smith

  Insight Editions released their latest poster book last month, and this time it was a collection of WWE pay-per-view posters in a book dubbed "The Ultimate WWE Poster Collection." Back in November, I reviewed my first Insight Editions poster book (Destiny) and came away impressed with it. This WWE one is really no exception. If you've seen one of Insight's poster books before, then you know the kind of quality you can expect. The posters are fairly big, measuring 15.9 x 11.9 x 0.4 inches…

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Art of Destiny
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The Art of Destiny Review

Gary Smith

Insight Editions and Bungie released The Art of Destiny earlier this month for a suggested retail price of $45, but you can get it on Amazon for under $30. It's a 216 page hard cover measuring 1 x 11.5 x 10.2 inches, with good quality paper. As you would expect from Insight, it is a beautifully put together product. There's a foreword written by Bungie's Lorraine McLees. If you enjoy Destiny, then this a book you'll like. If you just like collecting art books, then this likewise is a book that…

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30 Years of WrestleMania
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30 Years of WrestleMania Review

Gary Smith

The WWE partnership with DK Publishing has resulted in some really great historical WWE books. There's the two encyclopedia's and the WWE 50 book. Now, there's 30 Years of WrestleMania, which released on September 15th. Like its predecessors, 30 Years of WrestleMania is a beautiful and wonderfully put together hardcover book. If you have the WWE 50 book, it's about the same size as that (smaller than the two encyclopedias). Nice glossy pages with gold foil trim makes it look really slick. The…

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WWE 50 Book
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WWE 50 Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

If you're a wrestling fan odds are you have both of the beautiful DK released WWE Encyclopedia's. After all, they're amazing books and an invaluable research tool for anyone who cares about the history of World Wrestling Entertainment. Chances are you're also looking forward to the inevitable third update to the WWE Encyclopedia. We're not there yet, but in the mean time WWE and DK have teamed up again to release what might as well be considered the WWE history book in the form of “WWE 50,”…

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John Cena
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DK Reader Level 2 – WWE John Cena Second Edition Review

Gary Smith

Over the past few years, WWE has gone PG and began targeting children as an audience and it's a move that has been successful. While kids have always been wrestling fans regardless of the era, now more than ever we're seeing more and more really young kids at WWE events. If you're a parent of a young WWE fan, or you have a sibling, niece, nephew, or grandchild who is a fan of WWE then you should know about the WWE books in the DK Reader series. This series of books are designed to help kids…

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Life Itself
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Life Itself Review

William McPherson2 Comments

When Roger Ebert passed away last April the web saw an outpouring of tributes and well wishes normally reserved for the most beloved heads of state. Ebert’s final years were plagued with pain and peril, such as the advanced cancer that deformed his face, and took away his voice, thus ending his twenty-five plus year run of being a television show host of a major film criticism program. Although it took away his actual physical voice, that loss lead him to focus even more on refining his inner…

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The Power of Right Believing
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The Power of Right Believing Review

Gary Smith

What you believe is powerful. If you can change what you believe, you can change your life! Many today are struggling to control their behaviors and actions because they don't have control over their emotions and feelings. They don't have control over their emotions and feelings because they don't have control over their thoughts. And they don't have control over their thoughts because they are not controlling what they believe. Put simply, if you believe wrong, you will struggle with wrong…

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Amusing Ourselves to Death
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Amusing Ourselves to Death Review

William McPherson4 Comments

I shall open this review with the original foreword to the late, great Neil Postman’s most famous and enduring work ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business’ written and released way back in 1985. “We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian…

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Buffer UFC Book Review
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It’s Time – My 360° View of the UFC Review

Gary Smith3 Comments

I am a fan of UFC and MMA in general, but not as big a fan as I once was (and even back during the time when I was a big fan, I preferred PRIDE to UFC). Anyone who has ever watched a UFC fight knows who Bruce Buffer is; the charismatic ring announcer, half-brother to legendary wrestling and boxing announcer Michael Buffer. What I didn’t know was that Bruce Buffer had written a book and that it was coming out on May 14th; that is until it showed up at my front door late last week. Seeing as how I…

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Last Train To Memphis & Careless Love (Box Set) Review

William McPherson5 Comments

In Peter Guralnick’s 1994 book ‘Last Train to Memphis’ (The Rise of Elvis Presley) and his 1999 follow up ‘Careless Love’ (The Unmaking of Elvis Presley) a post mortem rescue mission is attempted on the humanity of one Elvis Aaron Presley. Elvis Presley died a full twelve years before this writer was even born, and so I and many others can only look back on his life with an odd sort of disorientation from an unbridgeable distance of time and culture. Guralnick sets aside (although does not…

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11/22/63 Book
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11/22/63 Review

William McPherson

The novel 11/22/63 tells the story of Jake Epping, a (soon to be time traveling) high school English teacher (the job and life that Stephen King himself occupied before his whirlwind success started with the publication of Carrie in the late 70s) from Lisbon Falls, Maine, recently divorced, who is also teaching an adult GED preparation class in the evenings, after school. One of his pupils in that class is his own high school’s janitor, Harry Dunning, or ‘Hoptoad Harry’ as the kids have cruelly…

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Devil in the White City
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Devil in the White City Review

William McPherson2 Comments

I read this book a few years prior to this writing. Coming into it I was expecting, like other reviewers, to be more interested in the sordid tales of H.H Holmes and his infamous 'Murder Castle' rather than the great engineering feat that was the 1893 World's Fair. But during the reading of this book I found myself almost wanting at times to skip past the sections focusing on Holmes story to get back to the fascinating and inspirational story of Daniel H. Burnham and Fredrick Law Olmstead, and…

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Treasures of Bruce Lee
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The Treasures of Bruce Lee Review

Gary Smith

I have seen a little of Bruce Lee’s work as an actor, but not much and I’m certainly not a big Bruce Lee fan. Having said that, I really love this book; so if I, as someone who isn’t a Bruce Lee fan, love this book then fans of Mr. Lee should be doing cartwheels over it. Really, it’s pretty awesome (as these kinds of books tend to me, at least in my opinion). The book is written by Paul Bowman (a Bruce Lee expert) and contains a brief foreword by Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee. It’s a good…

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Dead Space Liberation Review

Gary Smith

Liberation is the third of the Dead Space graphic novels (and only the second that I have read). This one serves as a prequel to Dead Space 3, a game which I do not yet have myself, but one that our Features Editor Eric W. award three-out-of-four stars to in his PC review a couple of days ago. This first I read (and reviewed here) was Salvage and it was written by Antony Johnston. That one featured an art style by Christopher Shy that I initially didn’t like but that did grow on me by the end of…

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