Book Recommendations

Hey there Duders, I've been listening to a lot of podcasts lately to get me by when doing the dishes and the usual house-hold chores, and wanted to broaden my horizons a bit. I have a subscription over at Audible that has been stagnant for around 4-5 months, building up credits, and was wondering if anyone could recommend me a book that focuses on gaming, or maybe a game book. I see a lot of duders lately reading some intellectual pieces and wouldn't mind diving into a couple of those.

Thanks for help!

I recently read the first Witcher book, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm not 100% sure that it has an audio version. I also liked the first Halo books.

How about a game... of... thrones?

If you have't read it yet, and you're interested in video games and general geek culture (and since you're posting on Giant Bomb, I'd assume you are), you absolutely have to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

Books what are these books you speak of?

@MattyFTM said:

If you have't read it yet, and you're interested in video games and geek culture (and since you're posting on Giant Bomb, I'd assume you are), you absolutely have to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

The audio book for this is pretty good. If you're looking for fiction with a gaming aspect to it it's a good choice.

Neal Stephenson has some good books. Snow Crash has a gaming element.

Iain M Banks The Player of Games is not video game related, per se, the game in question is sorta video game crossed with board game, but it is a really good story.

@MattyFTM said:

If you have't read it yet, and you're interested in video games and general geek culture (and since you're posting on Giant Bomb, I'd assume you are), you absolutely have to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

100% agree on this one!

Thanks for all the recommendations, I pretty much bought each book mentioned in your posts. Some I had to get in print, and others in audio form.

I would recommend The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.

Atlas Shrugged. Okay, so this Jewish woman, who lived in an age where Jewish women were raped and murdered in broad daylight in front of their starving families, wrote some books and started a cult dedicated to justifying the sociopathic behavior of men who commit such acts as natural selection. That the meaning of life is for the strong to eat the weak, and make a shit ton of money. Today, if you've ever clicked on a YouTube video that has a thumbnail of a cute kitty, but turns out to be some ponytail haired asshole in his basement surrounded by automatic rifles bitching about black people not working hard enough (as if working 20 hour shifts diamond mining before your fifth birthday isn't hard) then you've seen one of this mean Jewish granny's followers. This book is propaganda meant to portray major corporations as innocent victims of a wicked thieving government (as opposed to reality, where the government IS those corporations, their money is either ethically stolen from unfair trade practices, or flat out stolen Madoff style, and laws exist to prevent them from burning down the entire planet). Just as extremist Christians take the concept of believing in an afterlife and seeing your loved ones again, and turned it into an excuse to hate and abuse people, the Atlas Shrugged people take atheism... merely not believing in the supernatural, and turn it into a religion like cult of its own, where atheism means poor people deserve to die, disabled people should be euthanized or sterilized, charity and altruism should be banned regardless if a better off person actually wants to help, and all the other typical racist/homophobic/mysoginistic good stuff you already get from the Christian side of conservatism. It's an extremely important book for the gaming community, because nearly all of those hackers and pricks that use terms like "girlfriend mode", send death threats to female gamers and post their social security numbers online, say things like like "you got raped bitch fag!" during Street Fighter matches... They all follow this lady's ideology. Or specifically, Ron Paul, the Tom Cruise of her movement today, since her death.