Re: Brin: Book / Time = Joy%

Krondor eh?  I (peripherally) helped to design the world that Ray Feist set his 
books & game in.  Knew him and helped/taught him when he saw that "if Brin could 
get money for writing, why not me?"

Subconsciously, some of his less admirable characters were starkly clear 
self-portraits.




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From: KZK <[email protected]>
To: brin-l-r0TUnz/JSrZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
Sent: Mon, June 18, 2012 1:19:26 AM
Subject: Brin: Book / Time = Joy%

> David Brin:

> Seriously. (May I? For just a moment?)  Next time you contemplate a
> book’s retail price, try dividing it by the number of hours of
> pleasure you’ll get, reading it.  Then tell me of any other pastime
> with a better minutes per pennies ratio of sheer joy!

Video games.  It's easy to see that Good Quality video games gives a much better 
ratio (I'm not talking about all these first person shooter games which are 
basically 100% interchangable and are basically Doom clones).

Lets see, you probably get 3-5 times (average) from high quality games--Ico, 
Shadow of the Colossus, etc, You probably get 4-10 times from any given Zelda 
game (including handheld), 2-20 times from High quality fighter Games--Soul 
Caliber, Tekken, etc.  Possibly 100's of times from open ended games--Tetris, 
Angband, Darklands, Minesweeper, etc.

I know I spent more time playing Betray at Krondor than I did reading Magician 
(Apprentice & Master).

Then we get to TV shows/Movies.  The average person probably rewatches their 
favorite TV shows & Movies over and over again, so your conception is wrong.

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