Comments on: Book: This Gaming Life

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:15:57 +0000

Book arrived today. Introduction read already. First time I read a non-fiction book in years.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:30:02 +0000

I think that’s awesome. Passed it onto Jim.

By: Saflo

Saflo — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:14:14 +0000

It’s being advertised on the inner cover of the current issue of The New York Review of Books. Dunno, maybe that brings some more joy into your life, maybe.

By: mister slim

mister slim — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:16:18 +0000

I put in an order as well. I would like to point out that Mt. Hirai should really be Mt. Kutaragi.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:58:11 +0000

What the hell, I ordered it along with Half-Real by Jesper Juul. It wasn’t a hard decision in the end.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:41:08 +0000

I was going to order this now, but since there is no dramatic pre-order discount, no excerpt to further convince me that this is indispensable reading that simply cannot wait and I won’t be getting this until the end of the month, I’m going to wait until I have chosen something else to go with it to qualify for free shipping from Amazon.

P.S. Rossignol you have typos in this threadstarter! ;)

By: Jarmo

Jarmo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:16:22 +0000

"Balance of Power" by Chris Crawford (one of the 50 books on the Ernest Adams list) is available as a free text download from Crawford's website.

By: James

James — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:00:09 +0000

Congratulations, Jim. Happy to see that it all worked out well for you. I’ll probably be picking this one up on release.

Also, thanks for the reference to that list, Zuffox. I think I might look into buying a few of those too. I’ve been meaning to buy The Hero With a Thousand Faces for a few years now.

By: God

God — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:21:43 +0000

Good work my son

By: Podant

Podant — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:37:20 +0000

I shall buy this soon.
Also, Rossignol:

“His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, “a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems”, and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős.)[4] ”
-Wikipedia

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:01:52 +0000

Preordered. And I agree with monkfish: that cover needs to be a poster. Now.

I’m especially intrigued by the chapter on gaming as an answer to boredom. I can definitely relate to that.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:25:20 +0000

Thanks zuffox, happy to say I’ve got one of the books from that list.