![]() If you haven not seen the movie, then you'll actually be missing out on some of the nicer details in the novel. The classic movie buffs reading the novel will instantly catch all the references to the 1961 classic "The Hustler" staring Paul Newman. It's actually rather deeper than the plot description lets on. The aspect that appealed to me the most though was its relationship with other media. It stands out in other ways of course the concept of a great quest inside a video game being the main focus of the story while reality plays out in a more mundane way around it is extremely entertaining. It's rather fascinating for that reason alone. For the record, World of Warcraft, undoubtably the biggest craze in terms of MMO gaming, came out in 2004, just one year before the publication of this novel. Slum Online was rather ahead of its time in that regard, having been published in 2005, and showing intricacies of coping with a person's real life and their MMO one. There have been plenty of stories about characters inside video games in recent years. ![]()
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