It is on my to do listretrosportsgamer wrote:Nobody? Kind of surprising - I'll have to put together some thoughts to share.retrosportsgamer wrote:Has anyone else read Extra Lives: Why Video Games matter?
I did a search here and couldn't find anything about the author, Tom Bissell.
Books Read: 2011
Re: Books Read: 2011
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Opa Opa
Re: Books Read: 2011
I finished the Lord of the Rings trilogy again.
It's still as good as ever.
It's still as good as ever.
Re: Books Read: 2011
Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media - Barbara Warnick and David S. Heineman
Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
Korea's Online Gaming Empire - Dal Yong Jin
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson *new*
I read the last half of this book over the past few days (after reading the first half very slowly since it came out). As far as writing goes, I thought Isaacson's biographies of both Franklin and Einstein were superior (I haven't read the Kissinger bio yet), but this one obviously had very different kinds of source material (interviews with the subject and his contemporaries). That said, it was very interesting to read about a history that I've lived through and witnessed, and fascinating to hear some of the stories surrounding Jobs' successes and failures. Worth reading if you've ever had an appreciation for Apple as a company, Jobs as a person, or Apple's products.
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media - Barbara Warnick and David S. Heineman
Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
Korea's Online Gaming Empire - Dal Yong Jin
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson *new*
I read the last half of this book over the past few days (after reading the first half very slowly since it came out). As far as writing goes, I thought Isaacson's biographies of both Franklin and Einstein were superior (I haven't read the Kissinger bio yet), but this one obviously had very different kinds of source material (interviews with the subject and his contemporaries). That said, it was very interesting to read about a history that I've lived through and witnessed, and fascinating to hear some of the stories surrounding Jobs' successes and failures. Worth reading if you've ever had an appreciation for Apple as a company, Jobs as a person, or Apple's products.
Re: Books Read: 2011
Let's see here...
Dark Tower Series 3 and 4
House of Leaves
Dexter In The Dark
Artie Lange Too Fat To Fish
STUFF
Game of Kings
The Quiet Room
Prozac Diary
The Sociopath next door
Born Standing Up by Steve martin
Started but didn't finish:
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
The Professor and the Madman
If you only read one book on this list, make it House of Leaves
Dark Tower Series 3 and 4
House of Leaves
Dexter In The Dark
Artie Lange Too Fat To Fish
STUFF
Game of Kings
The Quiet Room
Prozac Diary
The Sociopath next door
Born Standing Up by Steve martin
Started but didn't finish:
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
The Professor and the Madman
If you only read one book on this list, make it House of Leaves
Re: Books Read: 2011
Re-reading PKD's novels in chronological order. Currently at The Game-Players of Titan, definitely my least favourite book so far.
Thy ban hammer shalt strike 
Re: Books Read: 2011
Forgot about these
EMERGENCE
the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software
Steven Johnson
Also didn't finish:
Stephen Hawking
a life in science
Michael White
John Gribbin
EMERGENCE
the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software
Steven Johnson
Also didn't finish:
Stephen Hawking
a life in science
Michael White
John Gribbin
Re: Books Read: 2011
Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media - Barbara Warnick and David S. Heineman
Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
Korea's Online Gaming Empire - Dal Yong Jin
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton *new*
This is one of the few Crichton novels I hadn't read yet, and I must say that it is a real shame that I didn't get to it long ago. I breezed through this fun Viking-tale/Beowulf romp, and it made me further appreciate the breadth of Crichton's fiction.
That gives me 7 for the year, which is somewhat depressing...I might try to squeeze in one more today/tomorrow, but I am probably going to fall short of the 10-15 I had hoped for.
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media - Barbara Warnick and David S. Heineman
Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
Korea's Online Gaming Empire - Dal Yong Jin
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton *new*
This is one of the few Crichton novels I hadn't read yet, and I must say that it is a real shame that I didn't get to it long ago. I breezed through this fun Viking-tale/Beowulf romp, and it made me further appreciate the breadth of Crichton's fiction.
That gives me 7 for the year, which is somewhat depressing...I might try to squeeze in one more today/tomorrow, but I am probably going to fall short of the 10-15 I had hoped for.