How USEI Gained 27,250% in 2012

This was a really short book. It was more like a pamphlet. It tries to explain how a stock investor could have detected the meteoric rise of a stock with the ticker symbol USEI. This is a penny stock. It soured in 2012.

There were a lot of cautions in the book. Most of the time, you should expect to lose your shirt in penny stock trading. Also, nobody got a 27,520% gain on this stock. However the author believes some achieved 600 to 700 percent. That is a 5x pay or more.

I don't think there were any real insights in this book. If you did know the secret on how to detect stocks that appreciate 700 percent, you would not be sharing that secret with anybody else.

How to Get a Job in Video Games

This book was written from an artist's perspective. But it did touch on some issues for computer programmers. A lot of it just seemed like the author bragging. There were some good insights. For example, you should choose a college that is in close proximity to a big game development company.

The author cautions the reader about the state of instructors in game development college courses. Those instructors may not have knowledge of current practices in game development. He also cautions you to not compare yourself to other students in a game development school program. Instead compare yourself to successful current game developers.

Many of the ideas from the author are not good ones. Don't slack off at school. Go to community college to save money, And so on. Not sure how I would rate the book overall. Maybe two or three stars out of five.

Prince Lestat

This book is about the vampire Lestat. However it is also about Amel, an ancient spirit that gave birth to vampires everywhere. Amel continues to exist in a vampire host body. Amel give the vampires their power. However it turns out that Amel wants out, and into a newer vampire host body.

A young vampire named Benji is broadcasting from New York. He is asking the old vampires to assemble in order to combat the spirit Amel. He specifically wants Lestat to come, even though Lestat is not one of the truly old vampires.

We meet another ancient spirit, and find out the he and his comrades are the original driving force behind the group called the Talamasca. And the vampire chronicles go on. I picked up another Anne Rice book on the cheap at a used book store.