Avidly Reads Board Games
Eric Thurm, "Avidly Reads Board Games"
English | ISBN: 1479826952 | 2019 | 144 pages | PDF | 980 KB
English | ISBN: 1479826952 | 2019 | 144 pages | PDF | 980 KB
“How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?”
Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart, Class Struggle, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships―from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night,
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