Dungeons and Dreamers
The Rise of Computer Game Culture ‘Dungeons and Dreamers’ From Geek to Chic’ by Brad King and John Borland.
I found this book to be quite good, it talks about how the game culture started and basic backgorund of game development from Garage (one man game) to corparation’s with multimillion game development.
It also talks about Role playing games in the days when the interne was called ARPANET and how games were text only.
It also talks about Doom and Quake a little bit. It also follows Richard Garriots History and how he came to write such games as Ultima 7.
This book is for somebody who is intrested in Computer games and how they were developed. I think that this book would have a limited appeal to people.
Flatland
Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A Abbott
No this book does not say that this world is flat. But it is about Dimensions. It’s basically a fantasy story about a world that is flat or 2D. It is kind of a math’s book, it was written over one hundred years ago so it may seem dated in parts, but it is thought provoking to think there could be dimensions out there but we can’t see or understand. I like to think of a metaphor about a fish in a fish bowl. We are in the inside and we can’t grasp what is on the outside as we have no concept of what it would be like, we could guess thou.
It is a very thin book and has only 83 pages. I wouldn’t really recommend this book for a casual read, more for somebody who maybe mathematical minded and maybe interested in physics.
Books about – Mind magic , Stage magic , Disdirection
Amazing Face Reading, An Illustrated encyclopedia for reading Faces – By Marc Fulfar
The Art of Memory.
Body Language
Demonic Mnemonic
Easily Led
Everybodys Guide to People Watching
The First Honest book about Lies
I know what you are Thinkning
The Drawings of a Boy With Autism
Lies, Lies , Lies
Little Giant Encyclopedia of Card and Magic Tricks
Magic and Showmanship
Maximise your Memory
Memory Buster Workout
Mind Magic
People Watching
The Psychology of the Psychic
Reading People
Secret of Mind Magic
Secrets of Stage Mindreading
Self working Mental Magic
Teach yourself NLP
Telling Lies
The life and many deaths of Harry Houdine.
Mysterious Stanger
The Sith Sense
History and Memory
Metaphos of Memory
Secret of Mind Power
Arts of Deception
The Skeptics Dictinary
Obediance to Authority
Absolute Magic
Note: (these books were taken from channel 4 web site wich was linked to Darren Brown web site)
The Basic Book Of Photography by Tom Grimm and Michele Grimm
The Basic Book of Photography, The Classic Guide 2004 Edition,
This is a very good book and I would recommend this to anybody who is starting out in Photography it covers all the basics and teaches you how to make a good photo (untimely its up to you I believe) and covers digital cameras but not in depth as its main focus is the technical side and focusing on how to make a good shoot.
It covers lighting and choosing lens. This book I would highly recommend.
The Skeptic’s Dictionary
This book is exactly what it says, it’s a Dictionary for the Skeptic, and it covers subjects from ESP to the Yeti. It is a very good book, each subject is covered well and tries to be scientific and is for the open minded.
It has a decent Bibliography which tells you that this book has been researched quite well.
This book I would recommend, you can start to read any section and as much or as little as you like, I think that it would appeal to a wide audience.
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Godel, Escher, Bach an Eternal Golden Braid.
This book is not to be read lightly it is very complicated and very hard to understand , if you like Escher and Gödel, this book tries to make there works seem it is symmetrical and ‘Recursive’.
It is a hard book to read and I don’t fully understand whole book, I think there maybe hidden messages in there for the real brainiacs.
It talks about A.I and maths and systems, and a whole lot of stuff I don’t understand. Very philosophical.
