Review: An Amazing Game
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
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.