Review: Well Worth The Price
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2013
This was an interesting book about one person in a deliberately engineered society. Amanda becomes a major, important business owner while maintaining that her endeavors not endanger the livelihoods of others. She and her friends made sure that they did not put other people out of business even though they were competing. She also made sure her employees were well treated and fairly compensated. As a result of both these, she prospered.However, there is more to the story than that. She faced many difficulties that she overcame, from being unexpectedly kicked out of school to facing pirates to attacks on her life from a mysterious organization. It was definitely a page turner, and one I will keep on my Kindle to reread.I found the author's way around cursing to be amusing. There are some errors that could be cleaned up by better editing. There were times that I was confused by a sentence or paragraph and reread the section several times to figure out what was meant. There is very little depth to her interactions or relationships with other people, and surprisingly for me, I would liked more characterization.Overall, the book provoked a thoughtful consideration of capitalism in me. It seemed to me that this is what capitalism should be, not the "megacorporation takes all" version that we have, but rather people taking care not to impoverish others on their way to wealth.