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    Jacked: The unauthorized behind-the-scenes story of Grand Theft Auto
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    Jacked: The unauthorized behind-the-scenes story of Grand Theft Auto

    By David Kushner

    3.5/5

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 22, 2012
    ISBN9780007434879
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    Jacked: The unauthorized behind-the-scenes story of Grand Theft Auto
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    David Kushner

    A contributing editor of Rolling Stone, David Kushner also writes for publications including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, New York, GQ, and Esquire. Kushner served as the digital culture commentator for National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday, and has taught journalism at Princeton University and New York University. He has been featured in The Best Business Writing, The Best American Crime Reporting, and The Best Travel Writing, and his ebook The Bones of Marianna: A Reform School, a Terrible Secret, and a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice. His books include The Players Ball; Alligator Candy: A Memoir (an NPR Best Book of the Year); Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto; Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb; Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas; and Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture.

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    • 4/5
      I've been a fan of GTA since Vice City, so this book was very interesting for me. It chronicles the franchise's and Rockstar's rise from obscurity to the mainstream titans they are now.

      The best part of this book is Jack Thompson. As a part of the gaming press during the Hot Coffee days, I had grown to hate the man, not trying to understand how he is as a person or what motivates him. Kushner humanizes him a lot, making his motivations understandable though misguided. It also shows both sides of the whole media frenzy over GTA-inspired killings.

      I'd highly recommend this book to a gamer or even a remote fan of GTA or Rockstar Games. Non-gamers will also find it an interesting treatise on the games industry.