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What’s on your bookshelf?: Deus Ex, Looking Glass Studios, and Otherside’s Warren Spectorread-only
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Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! This week, it’s Looking Glass Studios’ legend,Deus Exdirector, andOtherside’s Warren Spector - who I suspect might have realised the very secret goal of this column. Cheers Warren! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?
What are you currently reading?
I’ve kept a list of every book I’ve read since 1989, so this is an easy one to answer. Given that I read more than one book at a time, I have several books in my finished list:
I’ve been collecting quotes for decades so this is going to be both easy and hard. Easy because I have a lot to choose from. Hard because I have a lot to choose from. I’m tempted to pass on this for now - someday I’m going to start up a Quote a Day website where I provide a quote, talk about why it’s interesting in general and why it’s important to me, personally.
Okay, here’s one (out of, literally, thousands) in my collection. It sang to me. (Anyone I might work for should stop reading here!)
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.” - Saul Bass
(As a note, Saul Bass created some of the most memorable film title sequences of all time. A second-to-none visual designer. Look him up. There’s lots of his work on YouTube…)
Ack. Another one where I have to list several! I’ll list just six (and regret the ones I’ve forgotten immediately after I finish this!)
This may be the toughest question of all. I’m not sure there are ANY books I want to see adapted to a game. I mean, books are wonderful as books, and games are wonderful as games. The two media don’t need each other. That said, let me see… okay, here’s one almost entirely selfish one:
Ok, Warren wins. Or, is at leasttied with Dan. Book for now!
