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The first 150 pages of this book were good, no doubt about it, but it hardly touched on the concept of the book itself. The last 100 pages are exactly what I expected this book to be. That’s one of my only critiques about it, but I think it’s a large one.
Otherwise, I do think this was a very well written book. The first chapter grabs you quite quickly; it deals with him about to end his life over his addiction and it pulls you in quickly. Then, it starts to deal with a myriad of other problems that has gaming sprinkled into it, like drinking, sex, etc. Again, it’s not bad, but it just felt odd.
The last 100 pages or so really takes you into a deep dive of what can be addicting about gaming. It really kicks off with the horribly depressing story about all of his dogs dying within a year (which is probably the most I’ve cried reading a book). And then, we get into the meat of his addiction and what he was going through.
The actual crux of the story was worth the wait. It was an incredible deep dive into this world and proved the title factual by the end of it. It’s always been a subject I’ve been interested in and I’m glad there’s been a book written about it finally. It even inspired a potential fiction piece that was only a nugget before I read this. Another cool thing is that it ended with a Robert Frost poem who I was reading alongside this book as well.
It’s not a perfect book, but I do think it’s mostly good. Every page was rife with heavy emotion and read pretty easily.
The first 150 pages of this book were good, no doubt about it, but it hardly touched on the concept of the book itself. The last 100 pages are exactly what I expected this book to be. That’s one of my only critiques about it, but I think it’s a large one.
Otherwise, I do think this was a very well written book. The first chapter grabs you quite quickly; it deals with him about to end his life over his addiction and it pulls you in quickly. Then, it starts to deal with a myriad of other problems that has gaming sprinkled into it, like drinking, sex, etc. Again, it’s not bad, but it just felt odd.
The last 100 pages or so really takes you into a deep dive of what can be addicting about gaming. It really kicks off with the horribly depressing story about all of his dogs dying within a year (which is probably the most I’ve cried reading a book). And then, we get into the meat of his addiction and what he was going through.
The actual crux of the story was worth the wait. It was an incredible deep dive into this world and proved the title factual by the end of it. It’s always been a subject I’ve been interested in and I’m glad there’s been a book written about it finally. It even inspired a potential fiction piece that was only a nugget before I read this. Another cool thing is that it ended with a Robert Frost poem who I was reading alongside this book as well.
It’s not a perfect book, but I do think it’s mostly good. Every page was rife with heavy emotion and read pretty easily.
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