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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! The longest novel ever written is generally agreed to be Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past - a coward’s pick, since it’s actually 13 different volumes. Don’t let Proust’s despicable lies sully the joy of literature for you, though. He did have a good quality moustache - a far more important literary trait than actually doing any writing, imo.
This week, it’s ITU Copenhagen Games Professor andBroken Rulesco-founder, Martin Pichlmair! Cheers Martin! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?
What are you currently reading?
What did you last read?
What are you eyeing up next?
What quote or scene from a book sticks with you the most?
What book do you find yourself bothering friends to read?
I keep telling everyone to read Katie Mack’s The End of Everything, a non-fiction masterpiece about all the ways our universe can (and will, one day) end. This book manages to do the magic trick of on one hand telling you straight that all existence could just end in the blink of an eye, while on the other hand giving a lot of hope as it shifts your perspective from concerns about small everyday issues to topics so big you can only accept them. Those small topics are of course what makes Negative Space (BR Yeager) such a delight and I want to use this opportunity to double down on what was written in this place last week: it’s the best social-realism horror I’ve ever read and I’m shouting about it from any dilapidated roof I can find.
What book would you like to see someone adapt to a game?
I’ve actually given up trying to count the amount of books my guests mention to see how close they’ve come to naming every book ever written. I’ve become so adept at spotting failure to complete this column’s very secret objective that all it takes is a brief glance. And yet, I press on. The bravest man in games media, some say. Book for now!
