This is a great book that brings together the life of gamers as well as the economics of supply and demand. I'm not a gamer, so there were lots of things that I didn't truly understand, but I did like the idea of a young girl learning about life across the world, realizing that America is not the answer to everything. As she, the gamer digs deeper into the world, she meets with a Chinese student trying to survive. But health care such as it is, the students was sick and couldn't perform in the game like he should have and so lost hours and must decide to either be in pain or quit. Now her ire is up and she is going to fight for the justice of the workers. He got fired. No bueno.
My beef with the book has nothing to do with the book, really. Maybe it's just in general with society, or the gamers, or whatever. The girl in the book was chunky. The avatar was super cute, probably hot in avatar world. Why? Just wondering.We can't be healthy or look perfect, so we should live vicariously through pixels? Again, nothing to do with the book, but it seemed as good a place to complain as any.