Masters of Doom Book Reviews

AUTHOR
David Kushner
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
182

Masters of Doom by David Kushner Book 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 co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart.

Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. 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.

“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 swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams

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Book Name Masters of Doom
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
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Language English
E-Book Size 1.41 MB

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Great read. Masters of Doom, the tales of the two Johns is an interesting journey through the eyes of two young punks who grew up to be millionaires producing the games they loved. You will be brought through every accomplishment as well as every falling out which will also bring you an intimate history of Ideas from the deep... Or ID . 5/5

Really enjoyed this. Whether you're a game developer, a gamer, someone who experienced the DOOM phenomenon, or you just enjoy a story of underdogs breaking into massive success, check this out.

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Summary of Masters of Doom by David Kushner

The Masters of Doom book written by David Kushner was published on 24 April 2003, Thursday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 182 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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