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Cargando... For the Winpor Cory Doctorow
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Perhaps if I was a gamer I would have found this book more interesting but I just can't get over my feeling that sitting playing video games for hours on end is a huge waste of time. Doctorow takes a divergent group of young people from mostly south-east Asia and posits that through playing computer games they can effect changes in society. Sorry, I just don't buy it. Ambitious and entertaining, this sprawling story is set in a near future where massive, networked, multi-player games have become nation-sized economies. Doctorow speculates on what that future may look like, and hones in on the people who try to make a living there - as opposed to simply playing for entertainment - and what might happen if they tried to organise into unions. The story - like the games - is globe-spanning (and the locales felt very convincing), with a vast array of characters. This book could have been amazing if it had been firing on all cylindars, but unfortunately most of them seemed to misfire. The ecnomics stuff was interesting, but wasn't explained quite well enough; the story was a bit too convoluted and started to feel repetitive; the characters weren't quite well-defined enough; the book a bit too long; and the ending didn't deliver like I'd hoped it would. So enjoyable, original and ambitious - and that's not bad.
Once again Doctorow has taken denigrated youth behavior (this time, gaming) and recast it into something heroic. PremiosListas de sobresalientes
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I'm on the fence about giving this 3 or 4 stars. I've just finished it and am a little disappointed in the climax and denouement, but I'm not sure why. If the book keeps popping up in my thoughts over time, I'll probably raise my rating. ( )