The Story of Marvel Studios The History of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Volume 2

Volume two is much better

What is it about?
A detailed history of the MCU starting from Dr strange until beyond 

What is in this book?
Everything you want to do about how MCU movies are made
Inside never before reveal secrets and how stressful is it making a movie that we love 
Exclusive pictures and behind the scene look 

What I liked?
Reading about every small detail of the MCU 
The exclusivity of this book and the attention it has from the printing and the hard cover binder 
250 pages of awesome stuff
The last foreword by RDJ 

What I didn't like?
This book is heavy. I need to prop a table just to read it  
Some of the two page picture are cut in the middle. It is hard to see who was at the middle 

The Story of Marvel Studios The History of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Volume 1

This is an awesome book 

What is it about?
A detailed history of the MCU starting from before the first iron man until avengers age of ultron

What is in this book?
Everything you want to do about how MCU movies are made
Inside never before reveal secrets and how stressful is it making a movie that we love 
Exclusive pictures and behind the scene look 

What I liked?
Reading about every small detail of the MCU 
The exclusivity of this book and the attention it has from the printing and the hard cover binder 
250 pages of awesome stuff

What I didn't like?
This book is heavy. I need to prop a table just to read it  

Trevor Noah Born a Crime

A suprising read...

Trevor Noah is comedian who currently host the daily show. But how did his life started? How is his living growing in South Africa under the rule of Aparthied? 

How is it to be Born a Crime 

Title: Born a Crime Stories from a South African Childhood

Author: Trevor Noah (Daily Show host)

Pages: 304 (568 on iPhone) 

Chapters: 18 

What is this about:

It's about Trevor life growing up in South Africa with a black mother and a white father. The stories are not sequential but it moves from childhood, adolescent, teenager and adult. It touches on his love life, school, friends and most importantly his mom. This book is a love letter for her mom, the greatest women in her life. There are some chapters that are laugh out loud funny and there are some chapters that are sad and scary. It was a good read and i would definitely recommend it. 

Should you read it: yes, absolutely. Even you are not a fan of him also it's a good read 

Blood, Sweat and Pixels

This is something new. My first and hopefully many book reviews.

Title: Blood, Sweat and Pixels - The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories behind how Video Games are made.
Author: Jason Schreier (Famously a reporter for kotaku.com)
Pages: 320 (620 on the iphone)
Chapters: 10



What is it about:
Video game development has always been a secretive process (why? I have no idea. Probably due to they don't want their tech being used by other parties. Maybe they just don't want to be scrutinize by everyone on why the game is taken so long). This book is here to tell what goes behind the scene of some most popular video games in the market now.

There are 10 chapters in the book:

1. Pillars of Eternity (8)
2. Uncharted 4 (2)
3. Stardew Valley (3)
4. Diablo III (10)
5. Halo Wars (9)
6. Dragon Age: Inquisition (6)
7. Shovel Knight (4)
8. Destiny (7)
9. The Witcher 3 (5)
10. Star Wars 1313 (1)

The only game I've played out of this 10 chapters is only Uncharted 4 which for me is a great read since you can relate where the game developers had issues designing the game.  I've rank the chapters from great to ok. By far the story of Star Wars 1313 is an amazing tale on which a game that everyone put their blood, sweat and tears just died at the 11th hour. This read felt like I was reading a story that go either way (well we do know what happen to this game in the end). To tell the truth I love a story about developers who are underdogs and don't have any funding from their main company to develop a game. It shows that the struggle is real. Games like Diablo III is already a great game that requires more polish so the story is good but not that great.

Don't get me wrong, each chapter there are great moments to be had and you will appreciate how hard is it to design something for us to enjoy for 10-20 hours and never touch it ever again (makes you wonder right... you take years to work on something only to have it either loved or hated by the community)

I have a feeling that there is going to be a sequel to this book and I hope that a couple of game will be covered

1. Any Metal Gear Solid game (Anything from Kojima)
2. Anything from a Japanese publisher
3. Nintendo (they are a very secretive bunch)

I would definitely recommend this book to be read by anybody who loves games. Non gamers will probably won't enjoy this book as much since there are lot of game development talk here.

Should you read this: Yes, great read. ended to soon