there are sooo m any books why would you read a videogame book
You have taste
Why wouldn’t you? Especially for a game that’s as solidly story-driven as Mass Effect, the videogame provides a really rich backdrop for a novel. So, anyone know if they’re any good? One or two made the NY Times Bestseller list but then so did Twilight.
Only just now finished watching season one of Game of Thrones on hbo. I hear the books are much better (surprise) so now I am gonna back up and read the books.
Doesn’t really matter if the game is story driven or not, the story is crafted for a game not a book.
I seriously never understood how people could be interested in reading like Halo books or Warcraft books, or any video-game related book for that matters.
Finished The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and 1984, now reading The Call of Cthulhu.
uni break + finishing first season of game of thrones = read first 4 books in 2 weeks
Reading Use of Weapons and Excession, both by Iain Banks.
nno offense but is there a factory somewhere they make u people
I’m pretty sure I’m one of a kind actually. If I met somebody like me I’d probably laugh to death at him.
Excession is confusing; trying to keep all the ships in order over their transmissions.
I just sort of go with it and make vague guesses as to which one’s which… Gets confusing when one turns up that I swear just died two pages ago though.
I’ve only read Revelation so far, but I enjoyed it. Drew Karpyshyn is a good writer and I felt like he only added depth to the universe in a good way. Especially I think he did a great job with Saren - I’d definitely read a book based around Saren if Drew wrote it. I recently got both Ascension and Retribution home, and will be reading them probably as soon as I finish with the book* I’m currently reading
Because you are drawn by the universe created in those video-games, and want to “know more” so to say? I can’t see how it’s any different than anything else.
*I’m about halfway through The Zombie Survival Guide, and it is brilliant. It’s also a great “loading…/commercial break”-book, since it’s in small sections and you can read and enjoy for 5 minutes, put it down, and take it up again 20 minutes later.
I was playing atlas shrugged baseball, so I guess technically atlas shruggedAtlas Shrugged baseball
Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, made its way into American pop culture through the game “Atlas Shrugged baseball.” It’s simple to play:
Find a copy of “Atlas Shrugged” (They give them away for free at the Ayn Rand Institute; so much for the ‘free market of ideas.’)
Flip to a random page.
Close your eyes and poke a random spot on the page with your index finger.
Open your eyes. If the sentence you’re pointing to is a dry, boring reflection on how Man is the center of the universe and his mind is the motor of the world and anyone who gets in the way of his ego is evil, then you advance one base. If not, strike out.
According to the original rules of the game, you lose if you strike out three times. But because no one has ever struck out in this game, the rule is considered obsolete.
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But the last thing I actually read was “Go the fuck to sleep”, I’m easily amused.
I’m actually reading that for real right now. Dagney just banged Hank Rearden.
Novel: Pride Predjudice and Zombies 
and the Sword of Truth series - started out okay but was “yah well whatever” by the time I got to the last three books. I almost didn’t finish it but then I had to because it would kill me to not finish after that much time invested. 
Other: Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad, and am halfway through The Cashflow Quadrant
I am kind of excited about the prospect of the “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” movie. 
(And only partially because it’ll star Mary Elizabeth Winstead. )
Originally I said “why would you read Ayn Rand” but then I realised I was confusing her with Virginia Woolf somehow and had never read a book of hers. She still sounds crappy though!