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« Reply #1660 on: January 28, 2014, 09:50:27 AM » |
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Started Hornblower, (the first book). Great so far, about the (British) Royal Navy in the 19th Century. Guy joins navy young, is in battles etc
A bit different to my normal favourites but excellent so far
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« Reply #1661 on: January 29, 2014, 10:27:28 AM » |
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I'm reading "Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution" by Stephen Levy, It's a pretty interesting read.
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« Reply #1662 on: January 30, 2014, 10:19:02 AM » |
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I've really wanted to read The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room for awhile now
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« Reply #1663 on: January 31, 2014, 01:07:22 AM » |
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Finished 1984 and The Catcher in the Rye not long ago. Both very good books. Also reading A Clash of Kings atm.
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i promise i'm making a game.
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« Reply #1664 on: February 01, 2014, 07:40:59 AM » |
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Finished 1984 and The Catcher in the Rye not long ago. Both very good books. Also reading A Clash of Kings atm.
I read 1984 pretty recently as well and I completely agree with you. I'm in the middle of reading Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Pretty decent so far |
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Life sucks and then you die.
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« Reply #1665 on: February 01, 2014, 07:57:03 AM » |
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I'm reading Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. It has been really interesting so far. Kind mind boggling to learn how much "flaws" our mind really has and all systematic errors they are prone to.
On programming literature I'm also wading through Clean Code by Robert C. Martin and Professional Javascript for Web Developers by Nicholas C. Zakas.
I also started Jack Vance's Dying Earth. It has been quite interesting. A bit more fairytale fantasy, kind of like Le Guinn's Earthsea series. Not sure yet if I'll read the rest of the series though.
EDIT: Finished Dying Earth. It was quite inspiring because of its fairytale style storytelling. Maybe something I could use in my games in future.
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« Reply #1666 on: February 27, 2014, 08:24:18 PM » |
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About halfway through The Dharma Bums right now. A really great read.
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« Reply #1667 on: February 27, 2014, 11:53:34 PM » |
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People also recommend the dark tower series, but I heard the ending is a terrible copout. I don't know how I feel about reading seven books that build up to nothing.  I don't read a lot of stephen king. it's not really worth it, no. the ending that starts with an apology from the author for how unsatisfying and predictable it is, which is not really very helpful to the reader. |
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« Reply #1668 on: February 28, 2014, 12:43:19 AM » |
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Right now I'm reading Matt Barton's Desktops and Dungeons. It (the history of CRPGs) is really rather interesting although the print quality is quite bad. All the images are black and white and very dark. |
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« Reply #1669 on: February 28, 2014, 12:49:53 AM » |
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Alan Turing's biography "The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges.
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« Reply #1670 on: February 28, 2014, 10:25:54 AM » |
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Amerika by Franz Kafka
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« Reply #1671 on: March 16, 2014, 10:46:30 AM » |
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Please help TimW, a longtime promoter of indie gaming everywhere and an old friend of TIGSource, to write about indie games full-time.
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« Reply #1672 on: March 22, 2014, 03:59:21 PM » |
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Reading two Saramago books: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis and Blimunda and Baltazar. Enjoying both.
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« Reply #1673 on: March 23, 2014, 06:00:52 PM » |
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« Reply #1674 on: March 23, 2014, 06:25:14 PM » |
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Enders Game. Didn't really know anything about it except I saw it at the library and knew the name.
It was overall really good and a small portion of it was exceptional. Really good book. Wasn't what I expected going it, in a good way.
About to start reading Usagi Yojimbo. Some sort of rabbit samurai graphic novel. I was walking through the city the other day, walked into a comic store, bought that and another book called Gendel which I haven't read yet.
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« Reply #1675 on: March 30, 2014, 01:40:21 PM » |
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I am finishing to read Les Dames du Graal (Ladies of the Grail) by Jean Markale, a must read if you want to understand clearly the role of the different female characters in the Matter of Britain.
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« Reply #1677 on: April 04, 2014, 12:23:33 PM » |
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Historias de Cronopios y Famas (Cronopios and Famas) by Julio Cortázar
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Dan_Mac
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Composer. Thinker. Baby Philanthropist
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« Reply #1678 on: April 04, 2014, 02:40:17 PM » |
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Half way through the 'Witch of Portobello' by Paulo Coelho though may put it down for 'My Inventions and Other Writings' - a book about Nikola Tesla. A great inspiring guy. Look him up:-)
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An 80's kid with a lot of love for the games and their soundtracks. I hope to one day build an epic soundtrack such as that of Zelda, Shenmu or Sonic that immerse the player into the world I enjoyed as a kid:-)
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« Reply #1679 on: April 04, 2014, 06:32:18 PM » |
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Ready Player One is amazing  |
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