Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2019-08-28

Books mentioned on #1342 - John Carmack

2 books · With John Carmack · Listen · Watch on YouTube

John Carmack is a computer programmer, video game developer and engineer. He co-founded id Software and was the lead programmer of its video games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels.

Joe Rogan discussed Stephen King Goes to the Movies by Stephen King and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   Stephen King Goes to the Movies

   Stephen King · at 52:47

   Discussed

   “but the idea was based on a Stephen King book and the Stephen King book where there was a guy who was sort of slow and they did something to him and all of a sudden he became some super genius almost godlike character”

   Joe Rogan #1342 - John Carmack 2019-08-28 Listen at 52:47

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   Ready Player One

   Ernest Cline · at 1:32:23

   Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a dystopian science fiction novel set in a virtual reality utopia where a teenager hunts for an Easter egg hidden within a massive simulation by a quirky billionaire.

   Discussed

   “so yeah the ready player one vision that's a real thing that omnidirectional treadmill”

   Joe Rogan #1342 - John Carmack 2019-08-28 Listen at 1:32:23

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