![]() ![]() She said is was a "fat" read and just too heavy for her tastes. My wife, who reads mostly passion romance novels ("Fifty Shades Of Grey" type stuff) and a little science fiction, but reads quite a lot also (maybe 2 or 3 books a month) tried it and didn't even make twenty pages before she gave up. Red Alert, Command & Conquer, Dune 2000, Rebuilt for the Modern Era. Only a small handful of people I know have actually read the book, and of those, only two or three were able to read it and enjoy the read. I have been recommending "Dune" to anyone who would listen for my whole life. To have finished even just the first novel in the "Dune" series at the age of eight is quite an accomplishment. My dad read "Dune" the year it was first published, and declared it the single greatest work of fiction he'd ever read in his life. It is hard to imagine now, so many years later, when there are now six novels written by Frank Herbert in the series, and so many more by his son and a ghost… but, at one time, all we had was the first novel and a promise from Frank Herbert that a sequel, and then a trilogy, was on the way. Those six books, together, are among the most important books in my life that I have read.Īn interesting fact: I am old enough to have been alive when Herbert first released the first three "Dune" novels. I have read the "Dune" trilogy at least 20 times. In North America, the oldest game retrospectively classified as real-time strategy by several sources is The Ancient Art of War (1984), designed by Dave and. I have read the LOTR trilogy at least 35 times in my life. ![]() But mostly fantasy and science fiction, with a peppering of other genres thrown in for flavor. Sprague Decamp to Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Vidal, Hemmingway (whose work I really did not enjoy… too dark and depressing) Hawking, etc. You can play these games like Command & Conquer on PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, iPhone, Android, mac or even online. Everything from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mickey Spillane and L. A slow year for me is 50 books… a year when I read a lot I will read 70-75 books. Act of War is a geopolitical thriller with gameplay mechanics similar to C&C: Generals and C&C: Red Alert 2. Especially real-time strategies were on a roll, with many classics originating or gaining wide-spread, lasting popularity during those years. But I have been a voracious reader my whole life. 12:09 There was a time, stretching from mid-90s to mid-2000s when strategies were thriving, easily one of the most popular types of PC games. Mostly looking for a game similar to it but has been released recently or. I didn't read The "Dune" trilogy (the first three books) until I was older… about 17 or 18. 111 106 1 I didnt think Command and Conquer General supports high resolutions but I could be wrong. ![]() I read "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy for the first time when I was 10. ![]()
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