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Extra Lives : Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell (2011, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307474313

ISBN-139780307474315

eBay Product ID (ePID)99493752

Product Key Features

Book TitleExtra Lives : Why Video Games Matter

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicTelevision & Video, Popular Culture, Video & Electronic

GenreTechnology & Engineering, Social Science, Games & Activities

AuthorTom Bissell

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Reviews"Tom Bissell is a Renaissance Man for our out-of-joint time . . . His descriptions of simulated gore and mayhem manage to be clinical, gripping, and hilarious all at once. He transmits to the reader the primitive, visceral excitements that make video games so enticing, even addictive, to their legions of devotees. One can almost understand why an intelligent, cultured man such as Bissell has been driven to dedicate large chunks of his adult life to bouts of gaming." -The New Republic "Even ifExtra Liveswasn't the only book to deal with the future of videogames in a serious manner, it would probably still be the best one." -Newsweek "What should videogame criticism look like? Bissell's book offers plenty of tantalizing possibilities. . . A deeply personal work, as entertaining as the video games it profiles . . . It's also the first book about videogames that non-gamers can actually enjoy." -Entertainment Weekly "For anyone who has spent a weekend thrilled by the prospect of beating a game, "Extra Lives" will cast the addiction in a new, cerebral light." -Washington Post "An important, relentlessly perceptive book . . . Bissell proves that it's possible to ruminate on the past, present, and future of video games in a way that is both intellectually rigorous and consistently entertaining." -San Francisco Bay Guardian "Bissell has written the finest account yet of what it feels like to be a video game player at 'this glorious, frustrating time,' a rare moment when humanity encounters, as he writes, 'a form of storytelling that is, in many ways, completely unprecedented.'"-New York Times Book Review "Fantastic . . . I wish, someday, to play a game that will stay wit me as long as this book about games." -Farhad Manjoo,Slate "Extra Livesis the first truly indispensable work of literary nonfiction about society's most lucrative entertainment medium. Bissell's commentary is marvelously astute and his enthusiasm for videogames beams through every inch of text." -PasteMagazine "Tom Bissell is a Renaissance Man for our out-of-joint time . . . His descriptions of simulated gore and mayhem manage to be clinical, gripping, and hilarious all at once. He transmits to the reader the primitive, visceral excitements that make video games so enticing, even addictive, to their legions of devotees. One can almost understand why an intelligent, cultured man such as Bissell has been driven to dedicate large chunks of his adult life to bouts of gaming." -The New Republic "Even ifExtra Liveswasn't the only book to deal with the future of videogames in a serious manner, it would probably still be the best one." -Newsweek "What should videogame criticism look like? Bissell's book offers plenty of tantalizing possibilities. . . A deeply personal work, as entertaining as the video games it profiles . . . It's also the first book about videogames that non-gamers can actually enjoy." -Entertainment Weekly "For anyone who has spent a weekend thrilled by the prospect of beating a game, "Extra Lives" will cast the addiction in a new, cerebral light." -Washington Post "An important, relentlessly perceptive book . . . Bissell proves that it's possible to ruminate on the past, present, and future of video games in a way that is both intellectually rigorous and consistently entertaining." -San Francisco Bay Guardian "A master prose stylist, the erudite Bissell is

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal794.8

SynopsisIn Extra Lives , acclaimed writer and life-long video game enthusiast Tom Bissell takes the reader on an insightful and entertaining tour of the art and meaning of video games. In just a few decades, video games have grown increasingly complex and sophisticated, and the companies that produce them are now among the most profitable in the entertainment industry. Yet few outside this world have thought deeply about how these games work, why they are so appealing, and what they are capable of artistically. Blending memoir, criticism, and first-rate reportage, Extra Lives is a milestone work about what might be the dominant popular art form of our time.

LC Classification NumberGV1469.3.B55 2011