Un'analisi brillante dell'evoluzione dei meccanismi con cui funzionano i videogiochi. Da domani sarò in grado di trarre di più, in certi casi, dal mezzo, facendo caso ad alcune cose a cui non l'avevo mai fatto, e non è poco. E' un'opera sulla buona strada, anche se in qualche modo nonostante l'a...
I listened to this on audiobook while working, and I really liked it. It was a very interesting look at video games and their history, and the author is a pretty great writer. He's poetic in the way you expect of a book of essays about "serious" subjects, and conveys his love for his material wit...
Written by an American man who spent some time in Uzbekistan, God Lives in St Petersburg is a collection of literary snapshots in the various ‘stans of Central Asia. It opens with ‘Death Defier’, which follows a couple of journalists and their local guide / translator in Afghanistan, and it was a...
Petersburg God Lives in St. PetersburgGod, in time, takes everything from everyone. Timothy Silverstone believed that those whose love for God was a vast, borderless frontier were expected to surrender everything to Him, gladly and without question, and that those who did so would live to see eve...
“1998 July”? Why not “England, London”? Why not, “A time once upon”? A narrator debuts to describe something called Alpha Team’s in medias res search for something called Bravo Team’s downed chopper in what is mouthfully described as a “forest zone situated in the northwest of Raccoon City.” Okay...
He went into the beyond Nobel-less, like Joyce and Proust and Nabokov, but to many who read him he was as iconic: “deity” was used, more than once, in his assorted funeral songs. While desperate formulations such as “world literature” conjure up bongos, beads, and sitting Indian-style, the books ...
