Masters of Doom
"To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses--and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and sw
ISBN: 9780606313452
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Patrick Collison
Business & Entrepreneurship"One of my favorite books about building software."
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Business & Entrepreneurship"[This book] convinced me to start a company. Thanks for helping create Reddit."
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Technology"Please read Masters of Doom. It's such a great book."
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Business & Entrepreneurship"Masters of doom This book tells the story of Id Software, one of the most influential gaming studios of all time. They made Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake - my childhood favorites - and really defined the shooter genre"
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