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       KISSTORY II - Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 29, 2011, 7:42 pm
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       [CENTER]KISSTORY II (2000)
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       If you are a new fan of KISS or a life long fan and have never
       picked up either KISSTORY  or KISSTORY II, you should definitely
       check it out from a friend if they have it. Whereas the first
       book was everything it was hyped up to be, the second book
       failed to live up to it. It's not a bad book, but it comes
       nowhere near the epic proportions of the first.
       With the first book we get a ton of never-before-seen photos of
       the band, on stage and off. We get basically the life of KISS
       through the good times and the bad from the members of KISS
       themselves. In KISSTORY II, we get none of that. The book is
       dedicated to all things memorabilia. You name it, if there is a
       product with the KISS image on it, it's in there. It's cool to
       see some of the stuff I haven't seen in years collected in one
       book. But it's not something I will revisit anytime soon.
       The only thing that was remotely interesting was the genesis of
       the KISS Army, as told by the man who started it. Outside of
       this, you really are basically looking at a very expensive KISS
       catalog, one that you can't even order from because it's dated
       material going all the way back to the mid 70's. Another issue I
       had with the book is that parts of it were poorly put together
       in layout form as some images are clearly cut off on the top and
       bottom as well as the sides and sometimes the description of a
       image is sandwiched in the spine of the book making it
       impossible to read. There is also the issue of color choices for
       text. This makes it very hard to read when the color of the text
       is only a slight variation of the color in the background. I
       also have a bone of contention with a majority of handwritten
       letters by the fans, which are illegible at best.
       This is nothing more than a Rent (from a friend, which I was
       fortunate to borrow from or check at your library for a copy if
       your lucky). If you're wanting to buy a piece of KISSTORY,
       definitely go with the first book.
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       Re: KISSTORY II - Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 29, 2011, 7:45 pm
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