“- Plus there's the caricature of the drug world of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. That's an interesting one.”
Books mentioned in Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484
From Lex Fridman Podcast · 2025-10-31
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“The Thin Red Line is another book— ...and movie that shows that. - Yeah, yeah, and I watched the movie years before I read the book,”
“- Yeah. I read it when they first did Crime and Punishment. That was amazing. - They're wonderful translators, and a wonderful love story too. But”
“- Yeah. The end of On The Road by Kerouac: "Forlorn rags of growing... ...old." I just remember closing that and thinking, "What the fuck am I doing in this big...”
“James Joyce or something and thinking about the character, like, breaking apart Ulysses and thinking about, like, arguing about”
“Red Dead 1 and 2, all the extra packs for them, and Max Payne 3. I think we took the games thematically into new places through that period. From a writing”
“Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, you said that you have been, by fortune, struck with a bit of a capacity for the”
“But you picked Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome. Second one was Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.”
“Then Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Thin Red Line by James Jones, and Middlemarch by George Eliot.”
“Line by James Jones, and Middlemarch by George Eliot. But just zooming out, reflecting back on that conversation, what do you think,”
“about, you know, Vanity Fair, I used to love the novel, not the magazine. Because same thing, all of life is here.”
“dystopian novels are really interesting: 1984, Brave New World. - Love 1984. Had never listened to it or read it, and then I”
“- And the book I've read more than any other book is Animal Farm by George Orwell. I don't know why exactly, but the childlike fairy tale-telling of totalitarianism.”
“Line, Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. And The End of the Affair, Graham Greene. What makes for a great war book?”
“And The End of the Affair, Graham Greene. What makes for a great war book? - I think World War II”