Empire of Imagination : Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons

from kcshankd

More a choppy series of vignettes than a biography, this is a great story desperately in need of a narrative voice. The invented internal dialogues are a distraction. Despite these shortcomings, this was a welcome visit to an old friend. I loved hearing more about the (of course) somewhat trouble...

from Count_Zero

A very interesting and well written biography of Gary Gygax, though it don't spend much time on his Post-TSR career.

from Fiddleback_

A more back of the cereal box biography has neither been written nor read. Events and information which lend context to things previously discussed crop up in the narrative well after the events they would have shown some light on. Foreshadowing doesn't appear to be a particular tool in Michael ...

from anglemark

This biography is written as a dramatized story, with scenes from Gygax's life interspersed with facts. The dramatization does not present a veracity problem, Witwer is careful to document which of the scenes that are totally fictitious but based on what Witwer has learned about Gygax's way of th...