Hot games!

As usual on a Sunday, we review the best-selling games on a variety of online retail platforms.

CNA
1. Nintendo Wii Play & Remote
2. Ben 10 Alien Force (Ps2)
3. Dawn of War 2 (PS2)
4. Fable 2 (Xbox360)
5. Far Cry 2 (PC)
6. Fifa 09 (PS2)
7. Fifa 09 (Xbox360)
8. Killzone 2 (PS3)
9. Need for Speed Undercover (PS3)
10. WWE2009 (PS2)

Amazon.com
1. Wii Fit - Nintendo Wii
2. Pokemon Platinum - Nintendo DS
3. My Fitness Coach - Nintendo Wii
4. Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel - Nintendo Wii
5. Professor Layton and the Curious Village - Nintendo DS
6. Gold's Gym Cardio Workout - Nintendo Wii
7. Resident Evil 5 - Xbox360
8. Wii Play with Wii Remote - Nintendo Wii
9. Resident Evil 5 - PS3
10. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Nintendo DS

Take2.co.za
1. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (PC DVD-ROM)
2. Sam & Max - Season 1 (PC)
3. Killzone 2 (PS3)
4. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
5. Empire: Total War (PC DVD)
6. RaceDriver GRID (PC)
7. Time Crisis 4 (with Gun) (PS3)
8. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack (PC)
9. Another World: 15th Anniversary Edition (PC)
10. Ben 10: Alien Force (PS2)

Kalahari.Net
1. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot - PS3
2. Empire: Total War - PC
3. Resident Evil 5 - Xbox360
4. Devil May Cry 4 - PS3
5. Resident Evil 5 - PS3
6. Tom Clancy's Hawx - PS3
7. Race Driver GRID - PC
8. Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty - PS3
9. Ben 10: Alien Force with Toy - PSP
10. Race Driver GRID - PS3

Hot reads:

As usual on a Sunday, we review the best-selling books on a variety of online retail platforms. As requested we've added a few more platforms for our readers to consider:

Exclusive Books
1. Assegai
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Twilight
4. Breaking Dawn
5. New Moon
6. Eclipse
7. The Girl who Played with Fire
8. The Shack
9. Dreams From my Father
10. Eat, Pray, Love

CNA
1. A good woman
2. A new earth
3. Eat, Pray, Love
4. Guiness World Records
5. Obama: From promise to power
6. Rich Dad, Poor Dad
7. Scarpetta
8. The Secret
9. The Shack
10. The story of Edgar Sawtelle

Amazon.com
1. The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World - W. Cleon Skousen
2. The Twilight Saga Collection - Stephenie Meyer
3. Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) - Stephenie Meyer
4. New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) - Stephenie Meyer
5. The Shack - William P. Young
6. Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) - Stephenie Meyer
7. Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto - Mark R. Levin
8. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment - Steve Harvey
9. Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) - Stephenie Meyer
10. Watchmen - Alan Moore

Take2.co.za
1. Breaking Dawn (Trade Paperback) - Meyer, Stephenie
2. Twilight (Paperback) - Meyer, Stephenie
3. New Moon (Paperback) - Meyer, Stephenie
4. Eclipse (Paperback) - Meyer, Stephenie
5. Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
6. Assegai (Hardback) - Smith, Wilbur
7. Maverick - Leigh, Lora
8. Watchmen - Moore, Alan
9. Twilight - Meyer, Stephenie
10. New Moon - Meyer, Stephenie

Kalahari.Net
1. Asterix and the Laurel Wreath - Goscinny; Rene Goscinny
2. Asterix and the Soothsayer - Rene Goscinny
3. Asterix the Mansions of the Gods - Goscinny; Rene Goscinny
4. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
5. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
6. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
7. Asterix and Caesar's Gift
8. Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous - Rory Freedman; Kim Barnouin
9. God En Die Gode Van Egipte: 'n Reisverhaal: ? Reisverhaal - Willie Esterhuyse
10. Assegai - Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith - Assegai

It is with great pleasure that Exclusive Books and Pan Macmillan announce the arrival of Wilbur Smith's latest novel – Assegai, a hugely compelling novel about the Courtneys of Africa from one of the world's best loved storytellers.

To celebrate the arrival of Assegai at Exclusive Books, we will be giving away 20 prizes to Fanatics members who buy a copy of this new novel between the official release date on Thursday 12 March 2009 and Sunday 22 March inclusive. The prizes are: one of five signed copies of Assegai, one of ten Getaway hampers to the value of R550 each and one of five R200 Fanatics reward vouchers. You will be automatically entered into the competition and winners will be notified by Friday 27 March 2009.

But wait, there’s more! If you buy a copy of Assegai before Sunday 22 March 2009, you will earn 400 BONUS points and receive a R20-off voucher for you to use on any of Wilbur Smith's backlist titles.

Hardback
EAN : 9780230529205
478 pages
Publication Date : 12 March 2009
Publisher : PAN MACMILLAN
Country of publication: United Kingdom

Biography
Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds, and has since written over thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages.

Synopsis
It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from Von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and Von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.

More information here.

Hot games

So what games are flying off the virtual shelves of the on-line retailers this week?

Let's take a look and see if we can pick out any trends or give our blog readers some tips for some hot titles:

Take2
1. Sam & Max - Season 1 (PC)
2. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack (PC)
European Server Version *Requires Full WoW & WoW: The Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
3. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (PC DVD-ROM)
4. Bioshock (PS3)
5. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
6. Killzone 2 (PS3)
7. RaceDriver GRID (PC)
8. Another World: 15th Anniversary Edition (PC)
9. Painkiller Overdose (PC)
10. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Wii)

Amazon.com
1. Wii Fit - Nintendo Wii
2. Resident Evil 4 - Nintendo Wii
3. Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel - Nintendo Wii
4. Pokemon Platinum - Nintendo DS
5. My Fitness Coach - Nintendo Wii
6. Halo Wars Limited - Xbox360
7. Resident Evil 5 - Xbox360
8. Wii Play with Wii Remote - Nintendo Wii
9. Resident Evil 5 - PS3
10. Killzone 2 - PS3

Kalahari.net
1. Ben 10: Alien Force with Toy - PS2
2. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot - PS3
3. Race Driver GRID - PC
4. Devil May Cry 4- PS3
5. Fear 2: Project Origin - PC
6. Street Fighter IV - PS3
7. Scooby Doo Unmasked - PS2
8. Jericho - PC
9. Halo Wars - Xbox360
10. Killzone 2 - PS3

Superhotsex Deck

It might be a bit of an unusual post but I'd love to get some feedback from other book readers in terms of their buying habits.

Each week we publish a list of the books that are selling really well on the various online retail platforms and from time to time some risque books appear on the list.

Take for instance "Superhotsex Deck" by Tracey Cox which appeared on the Kalahari.Net listing this week.

Now my question is this - how often have you seen a book in the shops that you would be really intrigued to read, but don't have the courage to take it off the shelf and have to hand it over to the cashier to ring up to you?

Would you find it easier to order via an online catalogue or retailer and have it nicely packaged and delivered to your house?

Bestsellers

So what books are flying off the virtual shelves of the on-line retailers this week?

Let's take a look and see if we can pick out any trends or give readers some tips for some hot reads:

Exclusive Books
1. Q & A
2. New Moon
3. Breaking Dawn
4. Eclipse
5. Twilight
6. The Shack
7. Dreams From my Father
8. Eat, Pray, Love
9. The Girl who Played with Fire
10. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Take2
1. Breaking Dawn - Meyer, Stephenie
2. Eclipse - Meyer, Stephenie
3. New Moon - Meyer, Stephenie
4. Twilight - Meyer, Stephenie
5. Dream Warrior - Kenyon, Sherrilyn
6. Twilight - Meyer, Stephenie
7. New Moon - Meyer, Stephenie
8. Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
9. Dexter by Design - Lindsay, Jeff
10. Maverick - Leigh, Lora

Amazon.com
1. Watchmen by Alan Moore
2. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment by Steve Harvey
3. The Shack by William P. Young
4. Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer
5. Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) by Stephenie Meyer
6. The Love Dare by Stephen Kendrick
7. New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer
8. Handle with Care: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
9. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
10. Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer

A new face at the top of the Amazon.com listings with Alan Moore's "Watchmen" and I see the new Jodi Picoult novel also now out.

Kalahari.net
1. Asterix in Corsica - Rene Goscinny
2. Economics - Michael Parkin; Melanie Powell; Kent Matthews
3. Asterix the Mansions of the Gods - Rene Goscinny
4. Superhotsex Deck - Tracey Cox
5. Asterix and Caesar's Gift - Rene Goscinny
6. Asterix and the Laurel Wreath - Rene Goscinny
7. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
8. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
9. The Shack - William P Young
10. Asterix and the Soothsayer - Rene Goscinny

David Baldacci - Camel Club

Another cracker from David Baldacci!

This is a slightly older title but for people who have read a more recent Baldacci book will recognise the name Oliver Stone and the Camel Club.

Basically the Camel Club is a bunch rag-tag conspiracy theorists who happen to witness a murder committed by (surprise surprise) some rogue intelligence agents.

The more they dig into the murder, the higher up they realise it goes... and when the president of the United States is taken hostage in a daring attack the stakes get significantly higher.

What I liked about this book was that the plot didn't reveal itself and you were forced to read right to the end to see how it was going to play out. Just when you thought you had it all figured out another element came into play.

Title: Camel Club
Author: David Baldacci
ISBN: 978-0-446-61562-4
Loot price (See banner on side of blog): R96.00

Rated the book a 3.5 out of 5. Good read!

Hot games

As usual on a Sunday we scan the online retailers to find out what games are selling well.

Take2
1. Sam & Max - Season 1 (PC)
2. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack (PC) - European Server Version *Requires Full WoW & WoW: The Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
3. Bioshock (PS3)
4. RaceDriver GRID (PC)
5. Another World: 15th Anniversary Edition (PC)
6. Killzone 2 (PS3) In Stock
7. CSI: New York (PC DVD-ROM)
8. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
9. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Wii)
10. Painkiller Overdose (PC)

Kalahari.net
1. Killzone 2 - PS3
2. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot - PS3
3. Race Driver GRID - PC
4. We Love Golf - Nintendo Wii
5. CSI: New York - PC
6. Exclusive: CSI 4 - Hard Evidence - PC
7. Okami - Nintendo Wii
8. Rainbow Six Vegas (Xbox 360 Classics) - Xbox360
9. EyeToy Play 3 (Platinum with camera) - PS2
10. CSI: Hard Evidence - Xbox360

Amazon.com
1. Wii Play with Wii Remote - Nintendo Wii
2. Wii Fit - Nintendo Wii
3. Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel - Nintendo Wii
4. Killzone 2 - PS3
5. Halo Wars Limited - Xbox360
6. Pokemon Platinum - Nintendo DS
7. My Fitness Coach - Nintendo Wii
8. Halo Wars - Xbox360
9. MLB '09 - PS3
10. Street Fighter IV - PS3

Bestsellers

As usual on a Sunday we scan the online retailers to find out what books are selling well. There has been quite a lot of talk about "The Shack" on the iBlog platform at the moment and I see its still a popular choice.

Exclusive Book
1. Q & A - Vikas Swarup
2. Twilight
3. New Moon
4. Eclipse
5. Breaking Dawn
6. The Shack
7. Eat, Pray, Love
8. Dreams From my Father
9. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
10. The Audacity of Hope

Take2
1. Eclipse (Paperback) - Meyer, Stephenie
2. New Moon (Paperback) - Meyer, Stephenie
3. Dream Warrior (Paperback) - Kenyon, Sherrilyn
4. Twilight (Paperback) - Meyer, Stephenie
5. Twilight (Paperback) - Meyer, Stephenie
6. Eclipse(Pb) - Stephanie Meyer
7. New Moon (Paperback) - Meyer, Stephenie
8. Dexter by Design (Hardback) - Lindsay, Jeff
9. Darkness Unknown (Paperback) - Morgan, Alexis
10. Bones (Paperback) - Kellerman, Jonathan

Kalahari.net
1. Asterix in Switzerland: No. 16 - Rene Goscinny
2. Asterix and Caesar's Gift - Rene Goscinny
3. Asterix in Corsica - Rene Goscinny
4. Asterix and the Great Crossing - Rene Goscinny
5. Asterix and the Laurel Wreath - Rene Goscinny
6. Asterix and the Soothsayer - Rene Goscinny
7. Asterix the Mansions of the Gods - Rene Goscinny
8. Juices & Smoothies: Over 200 Delicious Drinks for Health and Vitality - HAMLYN; Nikoli
9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: Yellow Back Book: (Yellow Back Book) - Dr. Seuss
10. The Shack - William P Young

Amazon.com1. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment - Steve Harvey
2. How I Made My First Million on the Internet and How You Can Too!: The Complete Insider's Guide to Making Millions with Your Internet Business - Ewen Chia
3. The Shack - William P. Young
4. Watchmen - Alan Moore
5. Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) - Stephenie Meyer
6. Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) - Stephenie Meyer
7. The Love Dare - Stephen Kendrick
8. New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) - Stephenie Meyer
9. Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) - Stephenie Meyer
10. Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution - David Zinczenko