Of all things Geek. I am…
Years ago, and much closer to its 2014 publishing date, I told you about Console Wars and its masterful retelling of the marketing and gaming dominance match between Nintendo and Sega.
The book is absolutely amazing, but the documentary also stands on its own. Since it clocks in at only 90 minutes, it’s best referred to as the abridged story of the Console Wars as they occurred.
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Given my interest in politics and a college minor in journalism, it’s amazing it took me this long to read All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. But it’s 50 years after its publication, and it is still a fast-paced, well-written masterpiece.
It is a balm in troubling times that despite some of the horrors of the world, great investigative journalism was alive and well, and it could be again.
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As I mentioned in my post about the Blind Date with a Bookstore, I selected to receive two books in my curated box and this is a review of those two books.
While I enjoyed both books, I did not think I could come up with enough to say about both individually to write separate reviews and honestly, since they arrived together and I read them back to back, it made sense to write about them together.
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My TikTok algorithm saved my dating series. When I didn’t think there would be any new blind date related purchases left in my future, up pops a video on my FYP page from an indie woman owned bookstore in Austin, Texas. In said video, from Flutter Romance Bookstore, they were promoting a popular product in their TikTok shop. The Blind Date with a Bookstore.
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Hit Man is based on an article. That article is based on a true story written by a journalist, as is the documentary Radical Wolfe. So too are the movies Almost Famous, Live Free or Die Hard, Argo, and Top Gun.
It was those first two that I mentioned that were both released in 2023 and most importantly credited the articles they were based on. And the whole thing got me thinking…
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