Some great content between a LOT of hype.
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If you are thinking of using social media as a tool to attract more business, several of the chapters in this book will be highly relevant to you.

Here is the cliff note guide I sent to my team:

Gary Vaynerchuk is occasionally irritating and obnoxious, but I have to give him credit - I got a lot of great ideas from this short, fast-reading book.  This book helps you understand why social media is an important cornerstone to building your business, and gives a lot of specific ideas of how to incorporate SM into your day-to-day biz activities.  The best idea I took from this is it how to out-reach to your target community to get engagement.  Brilliant.  If you want to attract new clients with interest and SM marketing), this will be highly relevant.
* Chapter 1 - skip
* Chapter 2 - only read page 24 (storytelling); skip the rest of this chapter
* Chapter 3 - skim
* Chapter 4 - skip
* Chapter 5 - create great content - read.  Page 51 is a great Realtor blueprint.
* Chapter 6 - read carefully.  Page 67 is the core philosophy that makes this work in an authentic way.  I really liked the Twitter ideas on page 68-75.  It's worth getting the book for this alone.
* Chapter 7 - skip
* Chapter 8 - important for person newer to internet marketing and essential for experienced marketers.  Read it twice.  This is the critical part of the overall approach I've missed until now.  Seems obvious in hindsight, but I wasn't smart enough to figure it out until I read it here.
* Chapter 9 - pretty short
* Chapter 10 - read.  It's a checklist recap of what to do
* Chapter 11 - for advanced folks, a good set of ideas; everyone else can skip
* Chapter 12, 13 - skip
4560181
This has a lot of cool ideas but isn't as cool as it looks.
309849
The heart of the content is very valuable, but this makes a much better audiobook than a written book. Most of the content is extended stories and narratives rather than tightly defined. So you have to wade through dozens of pages of anecdotes before getting to the actual point. I suspect these stories make for a compelling audiobook, but when you're reading (especially when you have kids and limited time) it comes across almost as filler.

Don't get me wrong; the content buried in the book is excellent and changed how I think about managing the relationship between my kids. I just found myself flipping through most of the book looking for the content.
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encyclopedic-ish, which got to be a bit much in some areas I wasn't interested in (but that's me) - very well done.
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This Siege tie-in has some great material, but also has some retread which brings it down somewhat. For those who buy all the tie-ins trying to get the complete picture of the event, it can be annoying to see the same story again and again without even changing the POV. That said, this is still a worthwhile collection.

The first story in the collection is Dark Reign: The List, which recounts Ronin's (aka Hawkeye) attempted assassination of Osborn. While this is an entertaining story, with some great action, I already read it as part of&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Siege-Dark-Avengers/dp/0785148124/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Siege: Dark Avengers</a>&nbsp;and I understand that it is also part of&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Dark-Reign-The-List/dp/078514806X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Dark Reign: The List</a>&nbsp;(which I haven't gotten to yet). So, I don't feel it added any value to this book beyond increasing the price. Hence four stars instead of five.

The second part of the book follows the true Avengers as they become aware of Siege and take action.  It opens with The Hood, the members of whom have been powered-up by Loki's Norn stones, hunting down the "renegade" Avengers who are in hiding. Mainly it's a series of fights, but it does have some fun interplay among the heroes, including Spider-man and Spider-Woman, as well as heralding the return of the real Captain America - Steve Rogers. The story also includes some personal interplay between the various romantic entanglements.  Luke Cage gets spot-lighted, which I enjoyed since I'm not very familiar with the character. Here we see him in conversation with his wife about what their responsibilities are to their friends but also to their family. A similar situation happens with Ronin and Mockingbird.  It was nice to see the characters interact this way.

The final part of the book returns to The Hood, specifically its leader Parker. When Loki took back the Norn stones during Siege, Parker lost his power and he and Masque went on the run. The New Avengers decide that everyone must be held accountable for the crisis and go after them, which means a showdown with Count Nefaria. The final pages concern a heartfelt speech from Cage overlaid on images of all the heroes. It was a sentimental, but effective way to close the book.

Overall, though I was disappointed in the duplicated material, this was an excellent tie-in with lots of great action and thoughtful storylines. High recommended.
3694846
My expectations were high, and they were met. They even got a few of the marvellous side-stories in.

Get it, it's really hitting the fan in this one.
2107274
This is a great read, and I'm sure  the book is incredibly valuable for academic studies of folklore.  As casual reader interested in regional stories, some of the content beomes redundant. But that is not the point: the point is that variations on themes have been dutifully recorded, along with their sources.  However, I would suggest for any marginally curious readers like me, picking up this book to pass a pleasant hour, that you understand what you're actually paying for is a lot of the same stories and beliefs told in different ways.  If you were expecting a compilation-style collection of unique material, you will be disappointed.  Personally, though, I still found it all very interesting.
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Some of the interview footage is recycled from previous documentaries, but most of it is new. This is four hours of wonderful TP + the HBs goodness.
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Im a fan of Al Michaels, I think hes one of the great commentators. His book is overall fairly entertaining, though a lot of the stories were hit-or-miss for me as far as being genuinely interesting. There are quite a few passages describing game action, but since a commentator is really just another spectator, there wasn't always enough "inside info" to make them compelling or particularly insightful. Still, there were some gems that sucked me in.

On a slightly nitpicky note, Michaels isn't the greatest writer in the world, but I was hoping the presence of a Sports Illustrated writer (Wertheim) would make up for that. Instead I found a surprising number of typos (including one sentence that was repeated in two different places in a chapter which read like an editing mistake to me), repeated misuse of the word ironic (where coincidental was the accurate term), and what seemed to be not much of a lift in the writing style.

One more thing: I don't know why a non-sports fan would want to get this book, but in case you're not sports inclined and were thinking of reading this, you will often be lost. There is a ton of name-dropping with the assumption that youll know why that name is noteworthy. Some of them include clarification, many dont.
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Some very good stories here. There are three that I didn't finish. The last story, without giving anything away, answered a question we never knew to ask! (wink-wink to all Rush fans!) I guess I was expecting more than what was here. But I think it deserves stars/grades like an earlier review I saw here: 2 stars here, a 5 star there, a 3 here, a 4 there...and so on. But, because it's Rush related, and as stated, the last story was a very nice surprise, and a few of the stories were actually very good, I'll go with 4 stars.
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Another collection on music writing.from Da Capo, this edition does not dissapoint admirers of the previous year's entry.  Hornsby has chosen well, representing a broad spectrum of styles and artists (though it must be said that women and black artists are given relatively short shrift).  The most interesting pieces seem to be, once again, those on the least mainstream artists, probably because so much has been said about the hitmakers before.  Still, all the pieces are at least interesting (however, I don't understand why NPR editor Sarah Vowell's short essay on Al Gore is included).  Standouts include terrific novelist Steve Erickson's attempt to capture the mercurial Neil Young on paper; a sad tribute of sorts to the forgotten South African Zulu, Solomon Linda, who improvised the melody to the song we know as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight;" a lengthy New York Times piece on the impact of hip-hop culture on whites and blacks, and how they in turn shape the culture; and Metal Mike Sauders making a surprisingly good case for Disney Radio being the ultimate independent station.  More disappointing are a nostalgic homage to the gangsters that ran the early rock business by the usually powerful Nick Tosches, a prosaic account of a Barbra Streisand concert by a non-fan, and an uninformative tribute to Jeff Buckley by his neighbor.  But, as I said, all of the material here is at least interesting, and there's much here that will inspire readers to listen as well.
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There's some good stuff in here, as well as some pretty mediocre stuff. The writing starts to get pretty predictable after a while (not just what he writes, but how he writes it).
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More of the same from volume 1 so that means lots of interesting behind the scenes stuff and information about classic games, but it also means some odd editorial choices, weird need to have everyone draw their old office layouts, and lack of real broad discussion about the overall theme.
He lets the interviews tell the story, which is fine, but sometimes he leaves in things that should have been taken out, like a page of conversation where interview subjects talks about the autograph book they're signing during the interview.
Also, there are a few strange rant chapters where he rages against SJW's, and the idea that Japan is declining in game production. Again, both valid points but they seem almost like forum entries rather than something that belongs in here.
I think that this is a case where the subject is so niche that most people won't care, but a "better" writer could have probably shrunk this project into one book that focused more on historical perspective using the interviews as background, rather than just dumping the translated interviews and leaving that as the book.
An example of why crowd funding can be a boon and a curse at the same time.
Worth reading and buying though! I want part 3 to come out!
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The writing is nothing spectacular, but the content is entertaining and provides a look into the industry from an angle.
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Taken as a whole, it's terrific. It has a very wide range of bands; some of them are vying for that dubious distinction of Worst Band I've Ever  Heard In My Life. For instance, Danielson Famile and Havalina Rail Co. are  just too wierd, and, sorry, I just don't get into stuff like Living  Sacrifice or Training For Utopia.
On the flipside, the Supertones and  Stavesacre videos were very good. The two Ghoti Hooks were entertaining.  Plankeye had some good ones. The videos from Value Pac, Slick Shoes, Flight  180, and the last one from Joy Electric were pure fun. It was interesting  to watch the evolution of the bands that had multiple videos. The first of  the seven MxPx videos (Want Ad) is a short, immature punk song, shot  probably in 8 millimeter, written about how he wants a girl. The last one  (Move To Bremerton) is a very good, singable song, beautifully shot in what  looks like might be film, written about ...how he wants a girl.
The  videos from Fanmail, Starflyer 59, Puller, Mike Knott, The Dingees, and  Project 86 are all hidden gems. Fold Zandura is a band I had previously not  heard anything from, but their video makes me wonder what I'm missing. In  addition to those bands, it also has videos from Strongarm, Stretch Arm  Strong, Velour 100, Outer Circle, Morella's Forest, Joe Christmas, The  Huntingtons, Dogwood, Crux, Ninety Pound Wuss, and Driver Eight. Even the  ad for Tooth&Nail Mailorder was good!
This DVD is a great idea from  an always forward-looking label. I would love to see other labels like  ForeFront, Gotee, Star Song, 5 Minute Walk, Re:Think, or Essential do this.  I would buy them in a heartbeat. So, if all that doesn't convince you to  get this, realize that all the industry will be watching how this product  sells. So buy this, support DVD technology in the CCM industry, and have  fun doing it!
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There's a lot of good stuff in this book with some new angles on the festivals, but overall it is a rehash of a number of other books on the same subject. I would recommend it because of the new angles, but you can breeze through the material that is well known.
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Good variety with nice audio/video quality. Lots of content!