The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner

It's like an Indiana Jones movie. There's no other game that even remotely approaches this.

The journal of a very young Jordan Mechner as he built Prince of Persia, one of my favoriate games of all time. I remember playing this game in my teens, aware how it was somehow different from its contemporaries, but being completely ignorant of the technical leap that it represented.

This book reveals the hard work, time and genius that went into creating that game and I am very grateful the author shared it.

It is hard to imagine that I would have something in common with the creator of Prince of Persia, but there are definitely moments which, as a programmer, feel very familiar.

Oliver found a bug in POP. I'm bummed as it was one I'd fixed once, too, and it somehow got undone. But it's shippable, even with the bug, so that's probably what they'll decide to do. Shit.

Fascinating, surprising, nostalgic and highly recommended.

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The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi

After my recent failures, I decided to head to the Audible Hugo list for my next book. I am pretty pleased with how that turned out.

The Windup Girl is a fascinating window into a well thought out, internally consistent, potential future. Having spent some time in Bangkok, the sweltering context for the story was quite familiar and very compelling.

"I hope you don't die too soon, I also like you"

Just brilliant.

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Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

Meh.

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Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Still not as bad as Twilight, but trending in that direction. Hopefull that the third book redeems the series.

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The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

If I make the obvious comparisons to that other teen series with a female protagonist, this book is far better, though still failing to reach my expectations (not sure where those came from).

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