Hi,
I've relied on Amazon reviews to steer me to consumer success for years. After the purchase of this book I find myself obligated to write this, my very first review, to give back to the community I've relied on for so long. And as such I give you an unbias, practically sound, and factually based review.
A cohort and myself bought this book in hopes of supporting our well versed research into the world of steampunk. We're working on our own game and supporting storyline and have purchased a few resources to further educated ourselves in any and all aspects of the genre. We're generally laid back fellas and have appriciated every book we have purchased thus far in at least one way or another. We're glass half full kind of guys. I think most steampunk fans are. And it is without reservation that I must say there is not a single desirable aspect about this book. It's not that *we* did not like this book. But rather it is that I belive this book would benefit no one for any reason in any circumstance whatsoever. Let me explain.
This book literally is a compilation of 1000 pictures. You would think this would be easy to nail. And is why we purchased the book before any reviews were posted. So, let me explain how and why this book did fail at something so simple. There are no words in this book at all. No gadget titles, no short explainations, no author references, nothing. On each page is literally a few pictures. That's it. There are numerous repeated pictures meaning the title of the book is a complete lie. To be clear, this book, entitled "1000 steampunk creations", in fact as much less than 1000 steampunk creations. It contains numerous angles of the same creation on multiple occasions. And quite frankly some of the angles and/or zoomed in shots are completely unnecessary.
To be honest I think most of the initial few positive reviews for this book are likely family and friends of the "author" (the one that wrote 0 original words in this "book"). Please save yourself the cost of this book and look elsewhere for inspiration and pictures.
Justin