Comments on: Been reading some big ass books

By: Grey Alien Games

Grey Alien Games — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:30:38 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation Mel.

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:17:57 +0000

Nice post. It was really funny coming across it as I just discovered Steve Pavlina’s blog the other day and got quite distracted by all of the useful and insightful information he provided on it. Like you, I have a pile of books which I am slowing working my way through, so will see about adding this to my collection too. At the moment I am reading ’10 Secrets of Abundant Happiness’ by Adam Jackson. If you have not already read it you might like it as it has characters based on real-life people.

By: Grey Alien Games

Grey Alien Games — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:37:16 +0000

Hi James, glad you enjoyed the books. Gladwell’s books are a quick easy read and are fascinating. Code Complete is brilliant, but it’s huge, like 800+ pages and they are not pages you can zoom through because often you want to think about them a bit. I guess you could only read selected chapters that you are interested in but I felt like reading the lot.

By: James Carmichael

James Carmichael — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:29:51 +0000

I spotted Outliers at the airport and read it while on holiday, as I had already read and enjoyed Blink. It’s great! I then bought The Tipping Point too which I also enjoyed. “Code complete” sounds interesting, I will have to check that out. Thank you for the recommendations!

By: Grey Alien Games

Grey Alien Games — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:04:20 +0000

You are welcome Kyle. I remember seeing you first in the line for the other panel about game design, that was a good one. Be sure to check out some of my other book recommendations in this category: http://greyaliengames.com/blog/category/book-recommendations/

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:24:47 +0000

Excellent! Thank you for these other book recommendations. They complement the Steve Pavlina recommendation that you made to me after your “Just been fired” panel at PAX’09.