So I finally finished The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers, Volume One.
I got it for free years ago and it was bugging me that it was the only thing of significant age left on my Kindle, so I started reading it from where I left off in the bathroom every night.
I was 8 percent of the way through it...a 530 page book. It took me MONTHS to do it this way, but at least it kept me from buying a few hundred bucks worth of One Piece at the rate I was going!
This book is...weird. The author really, REALLY loves Japanese games if you couldn't guess. That's not the weird part. It's his undying love for unreleased content (and continually bringing up the law passed a few years ago about anything resembling child porn needing to be destroyed, which comes up a lot) and some other interesting quirks that come up in every interview. Of which there are almost 40 of them. Some of which are LONG. A couple of times I sat down going, oh, I'll just finish this interview with this obscure figure of gaming...oh, it's eighty pages long, my leg will fall asleep.
My kindle now thinks I take forever reading because of this book. Four hours to complete this chapter. No, more like ten-fifteen minutes. It's also a very front loaded book as the interviews tend to get less and less interesting as they go along.
Free is free as they say, but man, would I like that time back I could have spent reading One Piece...I don't know!
I also have another volume of Baccano to read.