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This Book Loves You - a review

This Book Loves You was created by YouTube sensation PewDiePie, published in 2015 by RAZORBILL. This Book Loves You is a collection of (in)inspirational quotes of the "wisdom" of PewDiePie in quote-graphic format across each page. There is no requirement to read this book from front to back, everything exists in itself - although some of the graphics relate strongly to the ones before or after. I don't really follow PewDiePie on YouTube, but I'm pretty sure "The Duck is Coming" is something prevalent there because it occurs way too much in this book. I would recommend This Books Loves You as a coffee-table kind of thing. It makes for a good laugh, but anyone who might be suicidal or chronically depressed might not want to read it if they can't see the humor in the context, as some of it can be a real let down. - I went to read through some pages at work once because we were too slow and ended up on a picture of a duck on the crucifix with a co

The Chamberlain Key - a Review

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I'm a designer. I love things that are well designed. The cover of The Chamberlain Key was designed well enough to get me interested in picking it up. The cover itself has an image referred to as temple scroll and there's a lot of hebrew in the background on the front cover that looks decorative at first; it's little things like that which made it so inviting to pick up. Before starting to read, I felt like the cover would give me a sense of what it was all about. A quick flipping through the pages gauges that an editorial designer wasn't in use for the creation of this print job. Mainly indicated by hyphenations, single words or short amount of letters on one line. This isn't problematic, although a little distracting for my well-trained eyes. Additionally, having an editorial designer work with all the text and images would probably make the cost too high to get Smith's message out. I'm also not much for religious stories. Reading "The Chamb