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What if life as we know it was just a game?What if instead of traditional schools, children learned by participating in a virtual reality simulation, one that allowed them to experience "life" from birth to death—multiple times?What if one player, on his final play, could change the world forever? Read more
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Format: Kindle
The Game is a fantastic, witty, fast-paced must-read every single day. I highly recommend reading it, because not only does it widen your perspective on life but it simply makes you think. And we all know that in a world full of those idiots who run red lights, thinking is just about a virtue. But. I can go all day on and on about how great and creative this book is. Don't get me wrong here. I'll say it in advance, too. There still are issues. There still are idiots. There are the Sunday-slow-driver idiots, too. You can't escape them, especially with this book. All those idiots and all their idiotic thoughts are amplified. Highly. In. This. Book. So: warning. The main character, Zach. He's a famous guy. "The Game" is what made him famous. It's a stimulation of a completely different planet and universe designed to teach kids. It's the system that replaced teachers and schools almost completely. You send 'em in with no memory and when they get back from seemingly living and dying thinking that was their life they're supposedly smarter about life. Pretty unique, however The Game has revolutionized the Real World and not just in teaching kids. All currency is based off of it (Credits). Losing the game? You're losing your very life and luxuries. Winning, like Zach? You're famous, have sponsors and TV shows off of you and your fake lives in the Real World. You'd assume once you're rich, you're rich forever. Nope. Zach has (HAD) a girlfriend who went in and the supercomputer of the game killed her in baby form (there was a 0.2% chance). Instantaneously she went into poverty and couldn't even afford going into the Fake World as a plant. She went from top 10,000 rankings to no one. She was never heard of again. But so far that hasn't happened to Zach, the lucky guy. His sponsor (called Patron) is the very guy that oversaw the making of The Game. He is Brandon, who also is rich (it never ends, does it?). But supposedly even though he was like, the executive director, he really can't control the Fake World anymore.. the world he calls Sylvia. She can talk to him. In a supercomputer way. And she is an AI and nothing more...supposedly. Zach is nearing the end of his childhood, and soon will not be allowed to go back in The Game. Everyone is excited. The Most Searched Guy is going for a last play. Will he try to end number 1 or keep it safe and stay as rich as he is? No one knows. But more disturbing things are coming up. Zach's old girlfriend is given a free play. One free play. Out of all the people, billions of them. On the anniversary of The Game that person is given a free play. No one can figure it out. Coincidence? You'll find out, reader. The old girlfriend also mysteriously doesn't have many Credits, yet she has a ton of expensive power-ups for her play. The play may make her famous again, or may simply be wasted and kick her back into a governmental camp. How did she get those Credits?? She didn't. Sylvia did. All of a sudden, things start happening on December 21, 2012. Zach learns how to make a religion. His girlfriend becomes his girlfriend. And both worlds they live in will never be the same. THE REVIEW: I love this book. All the characters are well-developed and the storyline suits them perfectly. Everything about the settings, the everything, flows flawlessly together. However.. There are a few spelling and grammatical errors on the Kindle Fire edition. Nothing big, only like a missed period or something. Not distracting or the sort, there was only like three I spotted. Because this book is relatively long, I can believe they were mistakes. Dialogue gets a little awkward at times. In the beginning, I had trouble believing mature people could talk like that. Of course, they live in a completely different universe though. They have different cultures and the sort, so maybe I was expecting too much. Or was I? Nothing in the Real World seemed too different, really. You have very minor technological advances, a population obsessed with watching Real people live Fake lives, and nothing different. They're just..people. That's where I was disappointed. Where's the culture? Did anything appear weird about the Fake World to Real people? Anything? There was nothing at all. Altogether, I absolutely love this book. There's no inappropriate content for children at all, everyone would in fact love it. It's not too long at all, highly engaging, and MAKES YOU THINK. How often does a book do that? Where you put the book down, grab a Kindle, and look up information? If you feel like you need to put your mind on something new and fun and time-using like a book, read this one. It has all you need and and want, and more. The Game is Life but Life is Not The Game.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2014 by Lizard Geek
Format: Kindle
This is a really well thought out story. I really liked it, and -had to- immediately start book 2. Fair warning- there's a cliffhanger (Which isn't such a spoiler, given that there are 4 published books as of this review). I know, I know, the whole world-as-game/dream thing is kind of meh, but this.... Oh, this was VERY well done. I found the story interesting and engaging right from the beginning, I appreciated the characterization, and I began to really root for the two main characters. I was sad for them when a very bad thing happened - that means the author did their job of making me care about our heroes. If I had to describe this book using other stories, I'd say its The Matrix plus Hunger Games-ish. I was impressed with the way the author combined explaining the way the world(s) work with some backstory and the events happening now. There wasn't a lot of "I'm a new author and I don't know how to explain the stuff underneath the action" type of passages. I thought the foreshadowing was handled well. Something that irked me, and yet I completely understand and support its inclusion, are the constant little mysteries. Nameless yet detailed good and bad (or both?) guys, hints at the world beyond the surface, characters doing things for reasons that seem suspect or unexplained...argh! It's maddening, and a tease, and eventually things get explained. It really keeps the tension and the interest high. I didn't find any glaring format or grammar errors in book 1 - either I'm un-observant, was carried away by the story, or they've been fixed. Book 2, at 85% complete, has several instances where sentences run together or the next words continue a few line spaces down from where it should - not story killers, but they exist. Overall - get this book, it's reallllllly good.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2014 by NewClassic Mel