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Masters of Doom
- How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry - a powerful and compassionate account of what it's like to be young, driven, and wildly creative.
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- Dave
- 07-06-16
Brilliant book
Finishes off just before the launch of Doom 3, this book covers the rise and fall of Id software and ionstorm. Really engaging and focuses on the people behind the projects. Prepare to google Carmacks reverse.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-01-24
brilliant!!
will Wheaton does brilliantly as narrator ( even though I'm not a fan) and brings the book to life, this is a must read for gamers and people wanting to understand a massively important step in cultural history
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-04-24
A Blast from the past
I like how the narator really brought out IDs rockstar attitude whenever he quoted John Ramero
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-10-21
Not just read, performed
This is a compelling story - particularly the early chapters leading up to the release of Doom. As narrator, Wil Wheaton is clearly invested in the subject matter and dramatises the book, rather than just reading it. I found it hard to stop listening once I'd started.
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- Holleyann
- 16-11-17
Wonderful Wil Wheaton
Average writing nothing stylistically special but it's not supposed to be. It's a good story, well informed and presented. Wil Wheaton, however, is a wet dream for the ears.
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- Mr Chops
- 12-11-14
Behind the scenes
After Elite, Doom was my favourite game. To find out the backstory to its creation was like this was brilliant. The atmosphere, passiin and optimism of working in startup organisations always attracts me. It is all recreated here, along with the darker elements.
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- GMB
- 04-08-22
Surprise
As a gamer of this generation I found this interesting listen and a good bit of nostalgia... Wil Wheaton does a great job of narration too
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-12-13
If you grew up with Doom you'll like this.
This is an interesting listen, if you grew up playing Wolfenstein and Doom covering everything from the first Commander Keen game to Quake. If you are not into computer games then this is probably not for you.
The narration is a little cutesy sometimes, and I didn't really like the impressions of the iD guys. However it was interesting enough to keep me listening.
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- Olivier
- 04-09-12
A Great Human and Technological Saga
"Masters of Doom" is yet another tale of 2 buddies starting an IT company that shook the world (Bill Gates/Steve Allen, Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak, Larry Page/Sergey Brin, ...).
Having read biographies of all the pairs mentioned above, why did I bother to read yet another biography ? Because, each of these is a different story, and when well written (and read) these are engrossing human sagas that also place our modern technological world in context.
"Masters of Doom" has it all.
The pair of characters that it follows are anything but boring, and the text does a great job of bringing their character and idisyncracies to life (and Wil Wheaton's reading is excellent). If you have any interest in technology (not necessarily computer games, which I do not play) then this is a sure winner.
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- Michal Tomcany
- 15-01-18
Very insightful
As game dev this is a must read! More to the fact that ppl in this book are still alive and part of the industry even today.
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