Hello Reader, who is also a reader, and welcome to return to the week – our regular Sunday conversation with the selection of great people in the book! The longest novel ever written is often agreed to be Proust’s memory of past things – a cowardly choice, because it is really 13 different episodes. Do not let the despicable lie of Proust Sully’s joy for you. He has a good quality mustache – a more important literary feature than actually doing any article, IMO.
This week, it is the Game Professor of Itu Copenhagen and co -founder of Breaking Rules, Martin Pichlmair! Congratulations Martin! If we have a nose in your bookshelf?
What are you reading?
I am currently more than 1800 pages in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque cycle. The three books of this trio were a long, wild trip through the 17th century history. In a few pages, it went from the Swashbuckling pirate adventure to the thought of the birth of science. And then it threw it into the Slapstick comedy. And detailed social analysis. A book to lose yourself, this is definitely better than finding yourself in it, because most people in it were another nuance of the nightmare.
What did you read for the last time?
The most interesting book I have completed recently is the Dictionary of Khazars of Milorad Pavi & Cacute;, a unique experience: a dictionary tells a story. You read about similar events from three views by searching for keywords in three different dictionaries, together what happened based on what the three non -reliable stories have noted about an event. And then there was a different story covered, that was about the dictionary and its history. And everything is connected. If Wikipedia is a game, it will have the shape of this book.
What are you keeping your eyes on the next?
I look forward to the madness of Benjamin Labatut, a fictional biography of John Von Neumann. Labatut writes about science and its role in the world. But he took the freedom to go beyond the normal boundary of the biography. I think he tries to write historical accounts more realistic rather than realistic reality because of the consequences of the resounding past events in the text. It’s hard to explain but I can completely introduce his previous job when we don’t understand the world.
What is the quote or scene from a book that is most attached to you?
It is not a special scene, but one thing I love is when a book shows the world that exists in sight. The origin of the law is the title (IAIN M. Banks). The ecosystem down in Moria’s mines is easily disturbed by throwing a rock down a hole (JRR Tolkien). The cities beyond the medieval maps that attract the characters in Baudolino of Umberto Eco. Those places clung to me because I myself were seduced to fill them with wonderful creatures, a person here was the dragons. Oh and the line of sticks is one day, that’s the day my grandmother exploded (Crow Road, Iain Banks) – what an open person!
Which book do you find yourself bothering your friends to read?
I continue to tell everyone to read the end of Katie Mack, a non -fictional masterpiece of all the ways our universe can (and will, one day) end. This book manages to perform a magic trick of one hand telling you that all existence can only end in the blink of an eye, while on the other hand, there are many hope when it turns your point of view from concerns about small daily issues to big topics that you can only accept them. Those small topics are of course what creates such a negative space (Breeater) and I want to use this opportunity to double what is written in this place last week: it’s the best social horror that I have read and I am screaming from it from any roof that I can find.
Want to see someone adapted to a game?
It is a child’s book, or maybe Proto-ya, but since I read it at the age of 12, I think the Lihheart of Astrid Lindgren will be a perfect fit for a game. It was the only book I knew that the Permadeath features (strange thing were a form of less permanent death) as a concept. And in 1974. There were a few books with Metagame – this is one of them.
I really gave up the trying to count the number of books that my guests mentioned to see how they had arrived when naming all the books have been written. I became very good at finding out that failure to accomplish this column’s very secret goal so much that everything it needs is a brief look. However, I click. The most brave man in the media game, some people say. Books for now!
