Goldmine KISS Collectibles Price Guide
By: Shannon, Thomas
176 pages
ASIN: 0873418549 .

About:
I like this one probably more than I really should. The layout is and pictures are good. But content wise it can’t stand up to Black Diamond II. In one way I prefer looking at these two books as fulfilling each other. I’m not saying that the content in this book are not any good it’s just that BD is much better. But then again BD has not the pictures.

Verdict: 6/10

Kiss: Hotter than Hell, the stories behind every song
By: Paul Elliot
Published October 2002, 144 pages
ISBN: 1560254181

About:
This book isn’t even worth calling bad. It’s just a run trough of the songs from the author without even becoming interesting once. I could have done this ten times better myself. There are also comments on Kiss by a lot of uninteresting people that have no place in “Kisstory”. The research is also very bad. When the author manages to put Peter Criss’s name in the text under a make-up picture of Eric Singer, he really should not be writing a book about Kiss.

The book just irritates me every time I pick it up. Save your money. If the dice had a lower value I would give it.

Verdict: 1/10

KISS And Makeup
By: Simmons, Gene
Published Dec. 2001, 288 pages..

About:
Oh Geno, Geno… You don’t remember much do you. This book could have been great but its not. The most interesting part is really about his childhood. The parts about Kiss is filled with some many faults that one must wonder how much he remembers or if he did any research before this book was written at all.
One thing I like is his honesty about his relationship with Ace and Peter. And I really belive Gene is honest in most of his reflections. But otherwise for a fact freak like me the book is not very good.

Verdict: 5/10

I really enjoyed the audiobook version of the book much more than the book. Just because It comes of more like a long tale from Gene than a book of facts. A lot more enjoyable than the written version.

Verdict: 7/10

KISS, The Auction
190 pages..
A auction catalogue of some of the coolest KISS items ever seen

About:
As a official book full of Kiss merchandise It is so much better than Kisstory II and it is a Auction catalogue! A lot of cool and interesting pictures of cool Kiss stuff. You don’t get much more but then again it’s really not a book.

Verdict: 8/10

KISStory II: Toys, Games, and Girls
By Susan McEowen (Designer), Kisstory Limited Staff
Published March, 2000 , 435 pages
ISBN: 0964486415

About:
I can’t understand why this book was ever released. The content is really weak. It seems like it was rushed and just put together to release a new Kisstory book. The pictures are mostly bad and there are no real structure of the book. Both KISS Collectibles Identification And Price Guide, Black Diamond II and Goldmine KISS Collectibles Price Guide have done this much better without blurry pictures and are a lot cheaper.

If your not like me and have to have everything. DON’T BUY!

Verdict: 2/10

KISS & Tell More!
By: Gebert, Gordon G. G
Published April 1999, 304 pages

About:
Gordons discussions on rec.music.artists.kiss was quite entertaining, but there is no way It’s entertaining in book form. Neither is the stuff about his promo tour for “Kiss and Tell”. So 90% of this book is crap. There are a couple of entertaining chapters about vintage Peter and Ace stories but not much to write home about. So even if Gordon seems like a cool guy there is no reason to buy this book.

Verdict: 3/10