Day 46 of the QDR brings us another graphic novel, video game tie-in: Dead Space Salvage. The story is set in between Dead Space and Dead Space 2 and involves a group of illegal miners salvaging the Ishimura. Is it worth reading?
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Gary's Quick Daily Reviews roll on with the 21st entry, a book review of the beautiful hardcover WWE Encyclopedia: Updated & Expanded edition. Click to find out if it's worth owning if you own the original.
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Think you can't learn economics? Think again! Peter Schiff's book "How An Economy Grows and Why It Crashes" breaks down economics to a level anyone can understand and reveals the common sense approach that is Austrian economics. Read the review in the 17th QDR!
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Jimmy Snuka’s prime as a wrestler was a few years before my time; my earliest memories of seeing the Superfly in action was during his early 90s WWF run where he was a solid mid-card act. As I got older and was able to acquire tapes and eventually the Internet, I was able to see some of Snuka’s older stuff from the late 70s to early/mid 80s and was able to appreciate what he meant for the business and why he was deserving of a spot in the WWF/E Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame…
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This is the final volume, so far, of the French comics to be released in English (all three volumes were just released in English back in October). A fourth volume came out in November in French titled “Hawk.” After finishing this volume, I really hope it doesn’t take another two volumes to come out before the series is printed in English again as I am into this story now. This one picks up where the second volume left off. This time around, another Assassin named Jonathan Hawk is in an Animus…
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If you read my review yesterday of the first volume, then you know this is really where this series of graphic novels begin a serious departure from the storyline we play in the Assassin’s Creed games. Yes, the characters we met in the first game (Desmond and Lucy) and the second game on (Rebecca and Shaun) are all present but things are way out of synch between the games and this series. And you can’t even say “well the game just didn’t show this happening.” The game doesn’t show some of the…
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This is first volume of the French comic/graphic novel series of Assassin’s Creed books. This volume starts off with Subject 16 and an ancestor named Aquilus, but it’s very much about Desmond and Altair. It tells how Desmond was kidnapped and came to be at Abstergo, and shows some key missions of Altair’s. For the most part, this volume follows the events of the first game pretty well. Anyone who has played the first Assassin’s Creed will be able to easily follow along, although the book does a…
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Willie Nelson is an undeniable American legend of Country-Western music. But there has always been more to Willie than his music; he’s an actor, a writer, and an advocate for several causes. He has written a few books before, both non-fiction and fiction, including an autobiography. This book is “musings from the road,” and that’s quite accurate. The book is completely random and has the feel of thoughts quickly scribbled on to paper on a bus ride. If you’re expecting perfect grammar and a…
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Author: David Thomas Roberts This was a review copy, provided at no cost to the reviewer. It should be duly noted right out at the forefront of this review that this is definitely a very in your face kind of book as it relates to its political dealings. Unashamedly, it’s a tin foil hat wearing, ‘right wingers’ kind of book mixing elements of current events and the author’s own imaginings. And it does have a political agenda. Everything from the content, the timing of the release, and the…
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With Election Day just a few hours away, it's the perfect time to sit down and read a book that does a great job of showing just how useless politicians are and how corrupt many of these people are. This book is packed with tales of stupid public servants, corrupt elections, the idiocy of voters, and any other "wacky and unbelievable" thing you can think of. If, for whatever reason, you haven't already lost all faith in government and the idea of elections, then this book will probably help push…
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Tolkien's World is the "unofficial and unauthorized guide to Tolkien's Middle-earth." To start off with, this is a beautiful hardcover book. It's big too, and I don't mean in terms of page count. It's 11.8x10.4x0.5 inches. It isn't just pictures and paintings though, it's really more of a brief encyclopedia of all things "Middle-earth" related. It's broken up into three sections: "The Free Peoples," "The Enemy," and "Legends and Lore of Middle-earth." Gareth Hanrahan does a good job of breaking…
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The word "encyclopedia" isn't mentioned anywhere in the title, but don't let that fool you. Legends of Pro Wrestling is a wrestling encyclopedia, and a darn good one at that. There hasn't been many attempts at a wrestling encyclopedia, and outside of the WWE produced one none have been a "must have" for anyone remotely interested in pro wrestling history. Legends of Pro Wrestling however is a must have book for hardcore wrestling fans that want to learn about the many wrestlers that have been…
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You may know Charles Ferguson as the director and writer of the 2010 Academy Award winning documentary Inside Job, which examined the financial crisis from 2007-2010. If you watched that documentary and liked it and agreed with it, then this book is for you. Predator Nation is essentially a book follow-up/extension to Inside Job. It's also a book the left will love and eat up as gospel, so if you're a liberal then you should buy this book as you'll definitely enjoy it. There are a few ways I…
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