{"id":504,"date":"2011-09-25T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2011-09-25T00:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T23:00:43","slug":"review-masters-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/review-masters-of-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Masters of Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/887814.Masters_of_Doom\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Masters of Doom\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1179194532m\/887814.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/887814.Masters_of_Doom\">Masters of Doom<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/65730.David_Kushner\">David Kushner<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/204404988\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to say first of all, what a fantastic choice of topic! It&#8217;s amazing what an influence ID have had in computer games and beyond, and I was delighted to find a book like this had been written.<\/p>\n<p>And very well written it is too. Kushner has researched his topic in incredible depth, as is made clear from the author&#8217;s notes at the back of the book including how many people he interviewed. More than that he strings all the disparate details into a compelling story. Clearly the author is a fan of the two Johns and the other people involved, but he doesn&#8217;t shy away from presenting their flaws.<\/p>\n<p>My only quibble is that there could be more detail in places, especially on Carmack&#8217;s significant technical achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masters of Doom by David Kushner My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have to say first of all, what a fantastic choice of topic! It&#8217;s amazing what an influence ID have had in computer games and beyond, and I was delighted to find a book like this had been written. And very well written &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/review-masters-of-doom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Masters of Doom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}