Nate
I’m not sure what to write about this book. Some of the writing was very well written. The subjects of games and game design all made sense to me as someone who grew up a few hundred feet from the local Donkey Kong game and put way too many quarters in that machine. The plot and sub-plots were often confusing and regularly didn’t ring true to me, but I convinced myself while reading that life is often nonsensical and illogical. I don’t know if that defense of the u-turns and abrupt changes is something that would hold water in a court, but at the time it let me continue reading. Something about it made me want to convince myself to keep reading. I can’t put this book in the top tier of books I’ve read, but the writing was better than most and some of it was very creative and imaginative in ways I was not expecting. It’s hard to put my finger on why I felt pulled through this book. It’s not a common feeling. At times it felt like Ready Player One with its cultural references from a past I lived through. It was almost like someone took Ready Player One threw it in a blender with a bunch of old Atari games, a copy of Grand Theft Auto, and wrapped it in a news report about the Columbine shooting…and then decided to try to make a love story that wasn’t a love story, but a friendship story out of it. Chaotic enough to be interesting, but too confusing to be clear in your mind when you turned the last page.
I’m not sure what to write about this book. Some of the writing was very well written. The subjects of games and game design all made sense to me as someone who grew up a few hundred feet from the local Donkey Kong game and put way too many quarters in that machine. The plot and sub-plots were often confusing and regularly didn’t ring true to me, but I convinced myself while reading that life is often nonsensical and illogical. I don’t know if that defense of the u-turns and abrupt changes is something that would hold water in a court, but at the time it let me continue reading. Something about it made me want to convince myself to keep reading. I can’t put this book in the top tier of books I’ve read, but the writing was better than most and some of it was very creative and imaginative in ways I was not expecting. It’s hard to put my finger on why I felt pulled through this book. It’s not a common feeling. At times it felt like Ready Player One with its cultural references from a past I lived through. It was almost like someone took Ready Player One threw it in a blender with a bunch of old Atari games, a copy of Grand Theft Auto, and wrapped it in a news report about the Columbine shooting…and then decided to try to make a love story that wasn’t a love story, but a friendship story out of it. Chaotic enough to be interesting, but too confusing to be clear in your mind when you turned the last page.