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Tom:
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--- Quote from: Tom on 31 Jan 2011, 17:13 ---Wait, there are people who haven't read Phonogram?
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I haven't, I never really got around to it.
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I was being facetious.
Gillen is credited as having invented New Games Journalism, I find this a little ridiculous but he is/was my favourite game critic.
Ikrik:
Started Neuromancer and now have a giant backlog of Gibson books to get through.
Every time I think of it my mind immediately jumps to Blade Runner and every time I pick it up and read it I wonder why the two are so synonymous in my head. I guess my friend and I have been talking about whether or not Blade Runner is cyberpunk or not and he always brings up Neuromancer and Gibson. I need to start separating the two.
Also, finished Casino Royale a little while ago and it really wasn't what I expected. I was expecting it to be old, dated, and quite boring. It wasn't exactly the most interesting thing I've read and parts of it really confused me, but it was quite a bit better than what I thought it would be like.
cyro:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 01 Feb 2011, 03:16 ---Yeah that's how I learned of him first as well, the first thing I ever read by him was a review of the PCG UK that had Warcraft 3 in it - it might even have been the Warcraft 3 review, or possibly Neverwinter Nights. I forget! Anyway he was brilliant at reviewing things, I'm kind of sad he left because now I'm not giddy about buying PCG when I go to the UK any more.
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NWN and WC3 reviews were the same issue if I recall. I think it was NWN, he was always the go-to guy for RPGs and FPSs.
Anyway Gillen does regular blogs/reviews with Rock, Paper, Shotgun, if you're not already familiar with the site, it's pretty good. The Deus Ex 10 year anniversary article in particular made me chuckle profusely.
muffy:
Have just finished 'To the Wedding' - John Berger.
I hated it. It's about a young woman dying of AIDS and her separated parents trying to make it to her wedding day. It's ostensibly about the ferocity of love and whatnot, but the whole thing was littered with misplaced exclamation marks and abstract bits of poetic prose that didn't sit too well.
Now reading 'Child of God' - Cormac McCarthy. He really doesn't like people, does he?
- And to chip a couple of penneth into the resting discussion between Khar and Inlander: most has already been said, so this is more of an aside: The intention of the author can be strengthened or weakened depending on the delivery (naturally). For example - say that an author uses the symbolism of a beetle to illustrate a point - the beetle will be different to every person who reads it. It could have connotations to the reader which hint at something more profound, it could remind someone of a phobia or it could just mean a shiny bug. The experience, knowledge and the cynicism of the reader will affect their interpretation. If the author wants to direct that interpretation more clearly, they can try, but it ultimately comes down to what the individual words mean to each reader. I don't think I illustrated that very well.
Scandanavian War Machine:
--- Quote from: muffy on 05 Feb 2011, 03:53 ---.Now reading 'Child of God' - Cormac McCarthy. He really doesn't like people, does he?
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haha no i don't think he does
maybe that's why i like him so much
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