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The Oracle Year

by Charles Soule (Goodreads Author)

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Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films

by Matthew Field

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“The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection.”
― Tom Bissell, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

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“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.”
― Tom Bissell, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

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“Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters—no small inspiration to take from a series whose beautifully androgynous male characters often appear to be some kind of heterosexual stress test.”
― Tom Bissell, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

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“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being temporary, is a kind of pleasure.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty

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“This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered a successful game, whereas a game with superb gameplay and a laughable story can see its spine bend from the weight of many accolades—and those who praise the latter game will not be wrong.”
― Tom Bissell, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

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