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Not a particularly coherent collection of stories thus far, but the seeds are planted.

A useful reference book for various logos, sorted by logo type. The book itself is small, and (mostly) black & white. Much like the others in this series, I would have preferred a larger, full-colour book.

A useful reference book for various logos, sorted by logo type. The book itself is small, and (mostly) black & white. Much like the others in this series, I would have preferred a larger, full-colour book.

A useful reference book for various logos, sorted by logo type. The book itself is small, and (mostly) black & white. Much like the others in this series, I would have preferred a larger, full-colour book.

Presented with little-to-no context, this book features some really incredible panels from the entire Sin City collection. I would have liked to have had more to read than just look at in this book.

The nostalgia! This is a decent coffee table book for anyone who grew up with game consoles in their home.

It is literally “The Ultimate Sneaker Book.” I would run back into my home to save this from a fire if I had to.

This book was underwhelming, overall. I feel like I've already read the best snippets on Reddit a hundred times (eg. Kolo Toure tackling Wenger in his first training session), and there are other books that better chronicle Wenger's time at Arsenal. This book lacked in structure, and certainly would have been better with a chapter or two on Wenger's final years with Arsenal.

Maybe I expected too much, hoping for more than a book long Pitchfork review written by a human thesaurus. When the author explicitly stated he made no effort to contact anyone involved in the making of this album, I should have known what I was getting into.

I might be biased considering I write code to make a living, but I found this book to be pretty fascinating. I certainly feel a little more validated, as I connected with a lot of the descriptions of programmers in this book. I would definitely recommend this book to people who want to learn more about coding (as opposed to actually learning to code, which is very different).

Jay and Dan are my two favourite sports media personalities on this planet, so it's a little surprising I hadn't read this sooner. While a little dated (the book ends with them leaving for FS1; they're back with TSN now), it was genuinely funny and overall entertaining to read. It would have been better with more stories about Dan.

This was my review for Holiday's other book ‘Ego is the Enemy':

“At times this book feels largely like a collection of biography book reports and inspirational quotes, but I think the overall lessons contained are vital. Very easy to read, if a bit shallow.”

That about sums this one up as well, frankly.

The Toronto Raptors are your 2019 NBA Champions, and I like basketball now. I have always loved Shea Serrano though. Shea even told me on twitter that Kawhi will stay with the Raptors (https://twitter.com/SheaSerrano/status/1143582783358607360). If he doesn't, I might re-rate this 1 star.

They could have also called this book “How to Name Drop” because a lot of Ruud's insights happen to be something like “I like this player, who I played with / played against, because he does this...” It reads like an extended Match of the Day analysis about the sport as a whole, grounded by Ruud's experiences as a player and during his time as a manager.

It's really just a bunch of graphs and charts, but really beautifully designed graphs and charts about comics. Added points for being interesting. I will certainly keep this close-by for data visualization inspiration.

There's only a few things I like more than design; soccer is one of them. I can't rate this book any higher only because they don't profile every team in the world's top leagues, and the provided summary of the team histories is mostly unnecessary in a book about the design and evolution of team badges.

I was really excited to read this because Manson's previous book “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck” was one of my favourite reads last year. This book wasn't nearly as good. It has one great chapter about halfway through the book, but everything else failed to hit the same way. Ended on a bizarre final chapter about the inevitability of accepting our impending AI overlords like something out of The Terminator. Yikes.

This is a decent book for anyone new to web development. Not particularly in-depth, but it covers a lot of good content for beginners, and it's written in a very readable style.

I lived most of what I had read in this book, so I am a little biased, but it does a really good job of summarizing Toronto FC's history to this point. I'd recommend it to any new fans to get caught up to speed, I learned some things about our history despite having started watching this team religiously since 2014. I wish it covered a little more about soccer in Toronto pre-TFC.

Kids go into a cave, don't find anything, get captured, escape. Aye! Not the best book in the series, kinda hoping the last two are better. Aye! Best part is Captain Widdershins dialogue. Aye! Or Sunny's developing vocabulary that holds some subtle jokes. Aye! He who hesitates is lost! Or She! Aye!

I don't really have anything bad to say about this book. I understand why it's so popular right now. I'm probably going to buy a copy to stash away for a future day.

“You can't change human nature. Men are always going to kick fuck out of each other then go off and shaft some bird. That's life.” That's also this book, and not much else tbh. Like the violence in this story, it's all rather raw and dull.

Again, much like Do The Work, this book just feels like the leftover material cut from The War of Art. You can skip this one too.

It would've been better with pictures, just saying.

This book was very disappointing, considering how much I liked his other book titled “The War of Art.” This one feels paper thin in comparison, and too directly related to writing to offer much in the way of practical advice.