339 pages
English language
Published May 1, 2004
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a 2003 book by David Kushner about id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing chiefly on the video-game company's co-founders John Carmack and John Romero. Upon release, Masters of Doom received positive reviews from critics and has been placed on numerous "best of" lists for video game books. The book would later influence Palmer Luckey to establish the technology company Oculus VR, and Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman to found reddit. In 2019, it was announced that the USA Network had greenlit a pilot episode of a potential series based on the book.
This took a while because I don't have that much audiobook "budget" in my life (getting better, though!), but I finally finished it :) This was very cool - but I'm quite sure the 5th star (and possibly part of the 4th) come from Wil Wheaton's fantastic narration... or should I say performance, because it really was!
