NP Coover says put down those books and pick up those joysticks

[Spencer Thiel]

 From 
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/03diablo.html>:

'"Harry Potter" and games like Diablo II may have more in common than many 
people realize, said Robert Coover, a Brown University English professor 
and experimental novelist who is among the leaders of efforts to find new 
ways to write on the Internet. "I don't like the sense that book reading is 
good and computer game playing is not," Mr. Coover said. '

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