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The best players are celebrities, adored and worshiped by countless fans.
Zack is a superstar among players.
His final play may change the world, forever.
Not it does not.
At no point does the author show anything.
All of it is told.
You get to 85% through the book and the author is still telling No.
Not it does not.
At no point does the author show anything.
All of it is told.
You get to 85% through the book and the author is still telling exposition.
Oh MY god, get an editor.
It sounds like it could be a good concept, but I can't deal with the comma splices, run on sentences, spelling errors, and poor grammar enough to get through it.
Glad I got it for free.
Hazards of being an English major - I simply can't cope with poor grammar, no matter the content.
That being s Oh MY god, get an editor.
It sounds like it could be a good concept, but I can't deal with the comma splices, run on sentences, spelling errors, and poor grammar enough to get through it.
Glad I got it for free.
Hazards of being an English major - I simply can't cope with poor grammar, no matter the content.
That being said, his editor did a great job, and I actually love the book now that I've read the edited version.
Great concept, gripping plot, bit of a disappointing end but I know it's the set-up for a sequel so I'll let it slide.
Audiobook Internal Dialogue Opinion booking games rather I make fun of the fact that this is the 2nd audiobook I have listened to that has a 5 star rating on the cover from Amazon Customer?
Do I wonder how good a book originally published in 2012 and now receiving the 2016 luxury Luke Daniels Audiobook treatment could be if the best review in 4 years came from Amazon Customer?
Do I wonder how good a book originally published in 2012 and now receiving the 2016 luxury Luke Daniels Audiobook treatment could be if the best review in 4 years came from Amazon Customer?
The idea that our entire universe is a complex computer simulation has been around for some time.
If we scoff at simulation theory we are denying that humanity will develop the capability to run such complex simulations in the future, which is equally silly.
Similarly all of the problems in plotting a book, such as coincidences and contrivances disappear when our book is set in a simulation!
Good scores or performance in the game will earn credits.
After the age of 14 players are expected to pay for any further incarnations into the game with the credits they have earned as well as to buy upgrades such as luck, health, focus and the like to improve their chances of high achievement.
Players over 14 who have no credits to re-enter the game end up as the dropouts of their society and will be trained as factory workers.
Retirement is mandatory at age 21 and credits earned between 14 and 21 can be used in the real world instead of retrying an incarnation on Earth for more.
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There were a few rough edges to the story from first time author Terry Schott.
When a character is asked a question they often answer then go on an extended exposition dump.
There were a few story elements that jarred, such as when for the 30th anniversary of the game a billion souls from the real world took an extra shot at incarnating.
The scoring of the game was never really properly explained, even when at the 90% mark some sort of attempt was made.
I enjoyed the way Schott tied in phenomena like DĆ©jĆ vu, synchronicities and ancient technology into his game theory.
Less successful was the attempt to tie in the Mayan doomsday 2012 prophecy remember that?
It seems like there is the potential for a lot of big revelations and I was hoping for at least one at the end of the book.
LD is great and was the deciding factor for me to check this book out.
So despite some rough edges I devoured this thing in a day and a half and will no doubt purchase the next book if it comes out as a LD-narrated Audiobook.
I can just imagine the author sitting down with buddies at a bar just before the book was written: "I have this idea for a book," he began, "it's a little like Matrix and the Hunger Games.
I found this book for free for the Nook on Barnes the game book review terry schott Noble and I took a shot.
I am glad I did.
I have a major book hangover from reading this one!
The plot is fantastic and is paced very well.
It had me from the very begining and I could not put it down.
I read it in half a day.
They do not have the second, third or fourth on Barnes and Noble so I will be ordering them from Amazon because I mu I found this book for free for the Nook on Barnes and Noble and I took a shot.
I am glad I did.
I have a major book hangover from reading this one!
The plot is fantastic and is paced very well.
It had me from the very begining and I could not put it down.
I read it in half a day.
They do not have the second, third or fourth on Barnes and Noble so I will be ordering them from Amazon because I must know what happens.
The story is full of hope, sadness, triumph and loss.
I found myself caring for all the main characters involved and hating some that I am still not sure where they fall on the good or evil scale.
This was one of the best books I have gotten for free with no knowledge of it to begin with.
I like the Matrix type story and the concept.
However, the book felt thrown together and lacking in the details.
I couldn't get past that the author never addressed how the people on Trew's planet were able to experience the faster time from the computer game of "Earth" in their comfort! asda online book a slot congratulate time.
And the time lapse kept changing throughout the book.
Some instances the time was 1:1, but other cases a few hours meant years in the game.
There was no consistency.
It estimated 5 to the game book review terry schott weeks for 70 years in " I like the Matrix type story and the concept.
However, the book felt thrown together and lacking in the details.
I couldn't get past that the author never addressed how the people on Trew's planet were able to experience the faster time from the computer game of "Earth" in their real time.
And the time lapse kept changing throughout the book.
Some instances the time was 1:1, but other cases a few hours meant years in the game.
There was no consistency.
It estimated 5 to 6 weeks for 70 years in "Earth," but when Trew was 40 they gave the same time frame for him to live to 70.
In order for that to happen, every day on Trew's planet meant 2 years on "Earth.
The characters were poorly developed and the "game" dynamics took over any interest in the characters.
The plot also had a ton of holes.
It didn't explain why kids, who had parents, were sent to the educational camps that were basically slave labor, instead of home to their parents.
And then how those kids lead productive lives after their forced slavery.
At no point did the author show what Trew's planet even looked like or how it functioned outside of "Earth.
} The other planet was pretty pointless to the plot.
Overall, it was an interesting concept that could have been handled a lot better.
The author wasn't able to bring it together in an developed way.
You will not be able to sleep unless you can turn off the millions of questions that come to mind when you finish reading.
This is the first book in a series and it definitely needs a sequel.
The problem is, it isn't published yet!
learn more here being said, on to the review.
Somewhere 'out' there, our real bodies are plugged into a very real virtual reality simulation.
You will not be able to sleep unless you can turn off the millions of questions that come to mind when you finish reading.
This is the first book in a series and it definitely needs a sequel.
The problem is, it isn't published yet!
That being said, on to the review.
Somewhere 'out' there, our real bodies are plugged into a very real virtual reality simulation.
Earth isn't real, but it's important to those running the game.
What we call God, or Allah, or the Universe, or whatever spiritual name religion gives it.
How can I be so sure of this?
Because I've spoken to it.
And it has spoken to me.
This game was created to replace the government school system on Tygon.
Children are given credits to purchase what they need in the game.
You live your life as best you can and, when you die, you return to your real body taking the lessons you learned and the memories of the experiences you had.
Many return to live multiple lifetimes, many do not.
You have no memory of the real world, or at least you're not supposed to.
His goal is to retire from the game as the 1 player.
All of Tygon will be watching to see if he succeeds.
Alexandra failed miserably a year ago when she last entered The Game and has been sent to one of the best government schools read: Oliver Twist-like living conditions and working in sewers and other lovely places the lord of the rings free online book them.
Because this year is the 30th anniversary of The Game, a free play is awarded to a random contestant.
One last note, the last time Zack and Alexandra were in The Game together, they tried hard to find each other in The Game and get married.
They failed, Alex's avatar died, and Zack could not find Alex when he came out of statis.
Brandon Strayne is Zack's patron.
He has a hidden agenda somewhere in this 30th anniversary edition of The Game, but it has not yet been revealed.
All we know is that time is running out.
Review: The Writing: The writing is very good.
The editing is so-so.
A few well-spent dollars would have gone a long way toward making this good book excellent.
There were not a lot of typos, but there were enough to be occasionally distracting.
The author has an engaging writing style.
I cannot say that I could not put this book down, but it was not because I did not want to know what was happening.
It was because I had to give my brain a break.
Some of the stuff that happens is so mind-boggling, you just need to set the book aside for awhile and come back to it later.
Spiritual Content: Good and bad.
There are some things I really love about the spirituality in this book.
In The Game, Zack and Alex's avatars are big into spirituality.
This is obviously where the author himself leans and he makes that a decent sized theme of the book.
This turns me off slightly, but since it is not discussed at length, I am willing to look past it.
However, because of this, I would recommend that only mature Christians read this book.
Sexual Content: The sexual content was kept behind closed doors or was barely hinted at.
A reporter flirts and sends suggestive hints to Brandon with her eyes.
Personally, I think these could have been left out, but they weren't.
None of them are in detail and, as I said, only suggested, so it would not deter me from reading it again or recommending it to others.
Language: There are a few four letter words, mostly if not all dān.
Conclusion: I recommend this book to mature readers for three reasons: 1.
The main problem that I had with it is that the second book isn't out yet!
The ending is powerful and makes you desperately want more.
The author makes it very obvious that a sequel was planned.
After all, time is still running out.
I discovered this book this morning and finished it in 4 hours after barely stopping to take a breathe.
It's simply a really good read and right down my alley in terms of personal interests.
I stumbled upon this through Book Barbarian and their daily email that alerts me to a couple the game book review terry schott free or cheap books going on Amazon.
The idea of The Game immediately appealed to me in the same way Ready Player One by Ernie Cline did.
It involves sending children into a virtual reality world to essentially lea I discovered this book this morning and finished it in 4 hours after barely stopping to take a breathe.
It's simply a really good read and right down my alley in terms of personal interests.
I stumbled upon this through Book Barbarian and their daily email that alerts me to a couple of free or cheap books going on Amazon.
The idea of The Game immediately appealed to me in the same way Ready Player One by Ernie Cline did.
It involves sending children into a virtual reality world to essentially lead practice lives so that they may be productive and wise human beings by the time they become adults.
It has replaced school as the primary source of education and rewards players with credits for achievements that read more can spend to play again or purchase upgrades like luck.
The twist on this is that right now, you and I are playing through one of our practice lives and could at any time wake up in the real world.
Our story revolves around a boy called Zack who is weeks away from his 18th birthday and has time for one more game.
He is a fantastic player who has just finished a game at the age of 76 virtual years, is ranked 2nd and has decided to invest every credit he has on making sure his last game is the best ever and will let him retire as number one.
I'm still getting my thoughts together but fuck me for a free book it was a real treat.
This may be the best philosophical work I have ever read.
Of course, on one level it is simply a work of fiction.
On another level, I found myself consciously slowing down and taking breaks to ponder the abundance of ideas and wisdom.
As a 70 year old man, who has lead an unusually exciting and fulfilling life, I found this book contains a remarkable mixture of inspiring hope and disarming cynicism.
There is clearly a message here, and it is written well enough to be sure the A complete surprise.
This may be the best philosophical work I have ever read.
Of course, on one level it is simply a work of fiction.
On another level, I found myself consciously slowing down and taking breaks to ponder the abundance of ideas and wisdom.
As a 70 year old man, who has lead an unusually exciting and fulfilling life, I found this book contains a remarkable mixture of inspiring hope and disarming cynicism.
There is clearly a message here, and it is written well enough to be sure the message you receive, is your own.
Put this on your must read list.
I feel like the concept of this book had so much potential that just wasn't explored.
I didn't feel connected to any of the characters and I felt like every plot device raised more questions than it answered.
The amount of things not explained to the reader was infuriating.
That's not to mention the poor grammar and spelling.
Sorry, just didn't feel it.
This a truly horrible book.
Let me explain it this way: have you ever seen a young kid at the beach?
A kid who tries to build a sand castle a little too close to the water?
So, they're working with over saturated wet sand and the waves are crashing in taking bits of the foundation little by little.
But they're just a kid so they just keep trying to pile more and more crap sand on top and things that don't make sense like twigs, rocks and maybe some seaweed because it's there.
You ever seen that?
This a truly horrible book.
Let me explain it this way: have you ever seen a young kid at the beach?
A kid who tries to build a sand castle a little too close to the water?
So, they're working with over saturated wet sand and the waves are crashing in taking bits of the foundation little by little.
But they're just a kid so they just keep trying to pile more and more crap sand on top and things that don't make sense like twigs, rocks and maybe some seaweed because it's there.
You ever seen that?
Well that's what this book is.
Synopsis: The world went to hell so a guy decided to build a https://eronline.ru/book/free-lord-of-the-rings-book.html to teach kids about life I guess.
Kids 5-18 are placed inside the matrix for a few weeks to live out entire lifetimes.
They don't know they're in the matrix when they get put into the matrix.
When they come out they're supposed to have life skills and whatever career skills they learned while in this matrix game.
They also hope to earn credits during game play so that they can go back into the matrix otherwise they go to schools so terrible the author couldn't even describe them.
The world decided it was a great idea for kids as young as 5 years old to learn about and experience sexual and emotional relationships, the hardships of being an adult, suicide, murder, mental health issues, drugs and all the rest.
Adults can tune into kids matrix lives.
They pay to view them as if they're subscribing to a youtube channel.
They also get paid days off to watch major events in these kids lives.
The author makes a point of telling you that the matrix world is better than the real world which is why people over 18 can't play.
Because jobs I guess.
You earn credits by getting lots of subscribers and also by affecting other users in the matrix.
So Jesus would earn more credits than a hermit.
Unless the hermit's life was crazy interesting and they got a lot of subscribers.
A players life cannot be DVR'ed, recorded, rewound or paused so you have to watch it "real-time".
A lifetime lasts between 6-8 weeks.
A decade is approximately 10 days.
You can do the math but watching anything at that speed is ludicrous.
Especially if you're subscribed to multiple people and can't rewind the feed ever.
To combat this they made players talk to themselves in their heads in order to be able to understand better but even that is sped up so I'm sure it's like listening to The Chimpunks at 1000x times their usual speed.
The writing is worse.
In the book women are just accessories and have no real personalities.
The male character we follow him when he leaves the house, when he visits his parents, when he buys a car, when he goes to lunch with friends.
The female character we only see through the lens of her affect on the male character.
We don't really see her outside the house.
We don't see her doing mundane adult chores.
We don't see her at a job.
How does the author get around this?
He just talks about her life in passing or she's in the presence of the male character and they do things together.
Everyone talks the same way whether they are the game book review terry schott or 88.
We're supposed to fall in love with the main character because he's supposed to be charismatic and humble.
But he comes off as a pretentious dick.
It's hard to like someone who has no faults or worries in life.
He's rich, handsome, he has great parents, he has a beautiful wife and does not want for anything.
He feels the need to tell us this time and time again.
The author also occasionally forgets about some of his characters so they pop up once and you never hear about them again.
Or they pop up once at the beginning and then don't pop up until the very end.
Even then they only get a throw away line just so the author can remind the reader that "Hey, I totally remembered this character I swear.
And stuff about "angels" and "demons" but it's the matrix so.
And it gets explained but it's dumb so it doesn't really explain much.
Then there's stuff about an in game weapon that also makes no sense but you know it's cool because reasons.
I could go on and on and on about the issues I had with this book but I'll let you get on with your day and read literally anything else.
How about the back of the cereal box.
I really enjoyed Schott's The Game.
He does a great job coelascing the the two worlds in the story together and coming up with reasons for the everyday to the unusual in our world.
Just be aware it ends with a major cliffhanger.
Imagine that we're living on Earth right now, but we're just computer generated avatars controlled by players in another reality.
Free ebooks are usually a hit or miss, so I'm typically weary when I start reading one.
This was possibly the best free ebook I've ever read!
It's got me feeling some type of way.
I really cannot explain how philosophical this book really was.
I'm sure that sounds goofy as fuck, but there are things in the book that honestly make you think.
No, th Imagine that we're living on Earth right now, but we're just computer generated avatars controlled by players in another reality.
Free ebooks are usually a hit or miss, so I'm typically weary when I start reading one.
This was possibly the best free ebook I've ever read!
It's got me feeling some type of way.
I the game book review terry schott cannot explain how philosophical this book really was.
I'm sure that sounds goofy as fuck, but there are things in the book that honestly make you think.
No, the writing wasn't extraordinary but the author definitely knew how to keep me on the edge of my seat.
I did not want to put this book down and I've never been more excited to purchase the rest of a series.
The plot and pacing were the game book review terry schott />It does end of some-what of a cliffhanger, but not really.
I'm definitely itching to finish the series.
I forgot to highlight more quotes; however, these are two of my favorite ones that I ran across that really hit home for me.
Smile and tuck it away in your memory to be looked at whenever needed.
When you encounter the bad, don't live in the moment.
Let it pass as quickly as it can, don't focus on it, and whatever you do, don't grab onto it and tuck it away in your memory.
The end of the book before the last chapter made me actually say out loud, "But t So I guess I got the edited version, because I didn't see the same sort of grammar twitchiness that others did, and I'm a pretty huge stickler for that stuff.
The end of the book before the last chapter made me actually say out loud, "But that's not supposed to happen!
I really liked the characters.
The pacing was a little weird for me to adjust to and there were some parts of it I had to go back and re-read to make sure I was understanding it properly, but wow.
I am looking forward to the next installments.
I loved this book.
Not only is it an amazing science fiction story, it adds in "glimpses of the past" since it takes place in two worlds.
When you are born into the virtual reality world, your conscience sits on a table in the real world, Tygon.
Earth is nothing more than a simulation.
Trew Radfield, played by soon to be - or not - Zack Strayne, grows up in a world with powers, people, and a plan to be the best played there ever was.
Are you ready to play The Game?
I thoroughly enjoyed my time reading The Game.
As I read, I found myself hooked and unable to put the book down.
The plot idea was very interesting and surprisingly philosophical; however I felt that Schott didn't develop his ideas to their full potential.
I would still highly recommend The Game to anyone looking for an entertaining read, similar to that of novels like Ender's Game and The Hunger Games.
This was a very appealing story, full of twists and turns and very fun especially towards the end.
My original audiobook review and many others can be found at.
Not by the synopsis alone.
I preordered The Game.
From an unknown to me author.
With the backing of one of my go-to narrators and a publisher, that does a really good job of picking up extraordinary titles.
The summary pulls at the questions at the back of my mind.
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
What is the point of life?
Well, what if the point of life was to do your best at it.
All the while scoring My original audiobook review and many others can be found at.
Not by the synopsis alone.
I preordered The Game.
From an unknown to me author.
With the backing of one of my go-to narrators and a publisher, that does a really good job of picking up extraordinary titles.
The summary pulls at the questions at the back of my mind.
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
What is the point of life?
Well, what if the point of life was to do your best at it.
All the while scoring points in the game called life.
That is exactly where Zach, the protagonist, finds himself.
Albeit with a twist.
Tygon is a world very similar to Earth.
Pretty much everything is very similar, technology, corporations, and the media rule.
However, the one major difference is this.
Think of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, similar to World of Warcraft.
The world where the game takes place is a different planet called Earth.
Everyone there is playing the game.
If you get more fans and followers, when you come out of The Game you are rewarded with fame and fortune.
But only if you have a fan base and can place in the ranking of all of the other players.
We get to follow his game life, from birth to his 40th birthday.
Because in the game 1 day on Tygon is 1 year on Earth.
This happens pretty quickly.
I do not want to give too much away here, so let me say this.
What if while in The Game you found a book that you wrote in your last game, and have no memory of writing, explaining that life is just a game.
Along with that, what if you started to tell people this and they believed you?
Yet so simple as well.
Written in a way that makes sense to me.
I was engrossed from beginning to end.
Not wanting to stop listening for anything.
I had to know what happened next.
WARING: There is a cliffhanger ending.
Followed with a brief sample of the next book in the series that cannot be published soon enough.
Luke Daniels delivered this performance just as soundly as most of the rest that I have heard.
That all seem to always fit the story perfectly.
For younger to older males.
Female voices that are more believable than most speak.
Full of strategic pauses and other unspoken traits of a truly skilled narrator.
Audiobook was purchased for review by ABR.
The Game takes on the good old "what if life on Earth for games to learn books of the bible with we know it were just a simulation" premise, in this version one where children from the age of 5 on live entire lifetimes in a virtual reality to allow them to gain valuable skills and life experience they can then apply to their real lifes when they grow up.
The protagonist is Zack, a highly ranked player about to embark on his last game run and determined to finish in the top spot.
In the outside world, a team has assembled to support hi The Game takes on the good old "what if life on Earth as we know it were just a simulation" premise, in this version one where children from the age of 5 on live entire lifetimes in a virtual reality to allow them to gain valuable skills and life experience they can then apply to their real lifes when they grow up.
The protagonist is Zack, a highly ranked player about to embark on his last game run and determined to finish in the top spot.
In the outside world, a team has assembled to support him, but it turns out that there's a lot more going on than initially meets the eye.
Interesting premise with many promising sounding aspects, but the worldbuilding lacks development and somehow it all just ends up being one big, confusing, half-baked mess in which only about half of what we're told in massive info-dumps makes sense.
The writing is all telling, no showing, and the characters are shallow and not particularly likable.
By the time the whole thing turned into some exceedingly weird take on religion, I had long stopped caring about what was going on.
When I began reading The Game by Terry Schott, I had no expectations.
It was a free book that I found on iBooks and the description sounded good so I decided to read it.
I enjoy reading books that have a fast pace and this was one of those books.
The plot was very complex and kept me reading.
I rated this The Game four stars because of all these reasons, and others, including a great setting and the incredible main idea of the book.
What I did not enjoy about this book was the characters.
They w When I began reading The Game by Terry Schott, I had no expectations.
It was a free book that I found on iBooks and the description sounded good so I decided to read it.
I enjoy reading books that have a fast pace and this was one of those books.
The plot was very complex and kept me reading.
I rated this The Game four stars because of all these reasons, and others, including a great setting and the incredible main idea of the book.
What I did not enjoy about this book was the characters.
They were not introduced well, and all of them were quite boring, but the great plot made up for where the characterization lacked.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to everyone who has an interest science fiction, and anyone in high school and under because it is a simple book to read with an interesting storyline.
I do not think an adult would like this due to the simplicity of the language.
The Game by Terry Schott is an amazing book, and the best part about it was that it is free.
I thoroughly enjoyed "The Game" written by Terry Schott.
This book is a science-fiction novel that takes place in the future.
Reading this book allowed me to escape my life and enter into Zach's life and his experiences with the game.
I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating because of its unique plot and the fact that the story was taking place in a very interesting futuristic society.
I also enjoyed reading about adventures of all the different characters inside of the game.
Terry Schott did I thoroughly enjoyed "The Game" written by Terry Schott.
This book is a science-fiction novel that takes place in the future.
Reading this book allowed me to escape my life and enter into Zach's life and his experiences with the game.
I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating because of its unique plot and the fact that the story was taking place in a very interesting futuristic society.
I also enjoyed reading about adventures of all the different characters inside of the game.
Terry Schott did a wonderful job of characterizing his characters.
I would recommend this book mainly to young adults because it would be easier to relate to the characters.
The Game is easily one of the more interesting books I've recently read.
Although I haven't finished it yet, the plot is gripping and easy to understand, while not too simplistic.
Terry Schott did an excellent job of switching between perspectives to keep things fresh and making the readers wonder what will happen slot online book of railways Zack and Alex.
I would recommend this book to anyone to like adventure or science fiction.
I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did, as it had a nice, communal development story uploaded to Facebook in parts for friends and had themes I like exploring.
In the end, I finished it just to squeeze out the ideas that the author had, as there were so many it ended up incoherent with little focus.
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The Game is a pre-adult virtual reality life system designed to educate the children of Tygon.
The Game is E.
The idea is that the children come out of this system having lived full lives, and can then take that experience into their real life.
Logical inconsistency 2: kids that fail end up in labour camps.
Where are the parents?
Who are the parents?
The Game has been around for 30 years ā where is the supposed societal enlightenment that would come about from the communal wisdom of a generation?
It makes no sense.
Despite massive holes such as these, there were some good ideas, such as the explanations for Angels and Demons, and religion as a whole.
The idea that the Pyramids and other ancient structures were BETA testers.
It had some innovation, but all this was just not enough to paper the cracks.
I am racking my brain trying to figure out how to rate this book.
I listened to the Audible version narrated by Luke Daniels which isn't an option in the book editions in GR.
It's an interesting plot.
It's premise is that Earth is a virtual reality game created to teach kids about life.
It replaces regular schools.
On Earth we are all avatars for the kids playing the game while they are in suspended animation for weeks at a time while taking their tur I am racking my brain trying to figure out how to rate this book.
I listened to the Audible version narrated by Luke Daniels which isn't an option in the book editions in GR.
It's an interesting plot.
It's premise is that Earth is a virtual https://eronline.ru/book/us-visa-slot-booking-hyderabad.html game created to teach kids about life.
It replaces regular schools.
On Earth we are all avatars for the kids playing the game while they are in suspended animation for weeks at a time while taking their turn playing.
A week in their real life is about a decade in the Earth game so they get to experience an entire lifetime each time they play.
They win and lose game credits while playing which turn into real life wealth or lack of when they become too old to play anymore.
Their entire society has become financially dependent on this VR game.
It really is my kind of crazy.
Still, overall, the plot is an easy 4 stars.
My main hangup is in the delivery of the plot.
It is written in 3rd person POV, which tends 777 slot machine online free book of ra distance me from the characters.
On top of that, we are dealing with characters living on two different worlds so we get shuffled back and forth between the two.
Then there are the 'snippets' that happen quite often to give us information or clarify the action for us.
They are blurbs from books, newscast recordings, historical records, etc.
As necessary as they were to explain and move the plot along, they honestly wore me out.
I always prefer being in the middle of the action as opposed to being informed of it.
I can't give the writing anything more than a generous 3 stars.
I can average all this out to a four star, but it would only apply to the Audible version which is not even listed in GR.
So, I've decided to leave the rating blank and let you make up your just click for source mind.
The Game is a weird offspring of the book The Hunger Games and the movie The Truman Show.
The duration and fruitfulness of your life gives you points that put you on places on the ranking in the real world.
Zack, in his The Game is a weird offspring of the book What charlie and the chocolate factory 2019 free online book congratulate Hunger Games and the movie The Truman Show.
The duration and fruitfulness of your life gives you points that put you on places on the ranking in the real world.
Zack, in his passed life, went up a lot of rankings and ended up rank two.
But in his next run of the game, things get a little more interesting.
The entire story was very slow but all around amusing.
The characters were well thought out and each one had their own sense of voice.
The romance in the story was enticing and kept you on the edge, but the story was very predictable and ended exactly how you would think.
The originality was not there and just felt like a combination of a ton of other stories.
In other words, it was the most basic sci-fi story you could think of.
It appeals to almost every sci-fi reader because it has every aspect of a sci-fi book, which makes the book very unoriginal.
I enjoyed my time reading The Game.
I found myself hooked and It was a quick read.
The plot click to see more was very interesting and surprisingly philosophical; however I felt that Schott didn't develop his ideas to their full potential.
I would still recommend The Game to sci-fi Lovers.
Also the originality was not there and just felt like a combination of a ton of other stories.
I did love the ending and him very interested in reading the next book!
This is one of my favorite book series ever!!!!
What a concept to think of what it would be like if we could live out an entire lifetime through Virtual Reality.
The series just keeps getting better so keep reading!
Great concept and story.
Held my attention all the speaking, no deposit flash casinos uk seems through.
Only complaint I have is the amount of typos and story edits that made it a bit sloppy.
I think if it had been read through one more time they'd have found thanks download wolf game for pc opinion all.
Still, I'd highly recommend it.
Now I must find the second in the series!
The Game The Game is Life 1 of 9 by and Terry Schott |GameLit| He didn't know he was playing. Zack was just living his life. It was really a.
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Terry Schott is the author of The Game (3.91 avg rating, 6885 ratings, 781 reviews, published 2012), Digital Heretic (4.13 avg rating, 2157 ratings, 119.
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This was a well-written book with an interesting proposition. What if everything we experience is just a simulation? What if life as we know it is just a reality show for another civilisation and the inhabitants of our world are players in a game who live their lives in the simulation with no knowledge of their situation?
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The best players are celebrities, adored and worshiped by countless fans.
Zack is a superstar among players.
His final play may change the world, forever.
Not it does not.
At no see more does the author show anything.
All of it is told.
You get to 85% through the book and the author is still telling No.
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At no point does the author show anything.
All of it is told.
You get to 85% through the book and the author is still telling exposition.
Oh MY god, get an editor.
It sounds like it could be a good concept, but I can't deal with the comma splices, run on sentences, spelling errors, and poor grammar enough to get through it.
Glad I this web page it for free.
Hazards of being an English major - I simply can't cope with poor grammar, no matter the content.
That being s Oh MY god, get an editor.
It sounds like it could be a good concept, but I can't deal with the comma splices, run on sentences, spelling errors, and poor grammar enough to get through it.
Glad I got it for free.
Hazards of being an English major - I simply can't cope with poor grammar, no matter the content.
That being said, his editor did a great job, and I actually love the book now that I've read the edited version.
Great concept, gripping plot, bit of a disappointing end but I know it's the set-up for a sequel so I'll let it slide.
Audiobook Internal Dialogue Do I make fun of the fact that this is the 2nd audiobook I have listened to that has a 5 star rating on the cover from Amazon Customer?
Do I wonder how good a book originally published in 2012 and now receiving the 2016 luxury Luke Daniels Audiobook treatment could be if the best review in 4 years came from Amazon Customer?
Do I wonder how good a book originally published in 2012 and now receiving the 2016 luxury Luke Daniels Audiobook treatment could be if the best review in 4 years came from Amazon Customer?
The idea that our entire universe is a complex computer simulation has been around for some time.
If we scoff at simulation theory we are denying that humanity will develop the capability to run such complex simulations in the future, which is equally silly.
Similarly all of the problems in plotting a book, such as coincidences and contrivances disappear when our book is set in a simulation!
Good scores or performance in the game will earn credits.
After the age of 14 players are expected to pay for any further incarnations into the game with the credits they have earned as well as to buy upgrades such as luck, health, focus and the like to improve their chances of high achievement.
Players over 14 who have no credits to re-enter the game end up as the dropouts of their society and will be trained as factory workers.
Retirement is mandatory at age 21 and credits earned between 14 and 21 can be used in the real world instead of retrying an incarnation on Earth for more.
Businesses are required to supply leave to allow viewers to tune in to their favourite players games.
There were a few rough edges to the story from first time author Terry Schott.
When a character is asked a question they often answer then go on an extended exposition dump.
There were a few story elements that jarred, such as when for the 30th anniversary of the game a billion souls from the real world took an extra shot at incarnating.
The scoring of the game was never really properly explained, even when at the 90% mark some sort of attempt was made.
I enjoyed the way Schott tied in phenomena like DĆ©jĆ vu, synchronicities and ancient technology into his game theory.
Less successful was the attempt to tie in the Mayan doomsday 2012 prophecy remember that?
It seems like there is the potential for a lot of big revelations and I was hoping for at least one at the end of the book.
LD is great and was the deciding factor for me to check this book out.
So despite some rough edges I check this out this thing in a day and a half and will no doubt purchase the next book if it comes out as a LD-narrated Audiobook.
I can just imagine the author sitting down with buddies at a bar just before the book was written: "I have this idea for a book," he began, "it's a little like Matrix and the Hunger Games.
I found this book for free for the Nook on Barnes and Noble and I took a shot.
I am glad I did.
I have a major book hangover from reading this one!
The plot is fantastic and is paced very well.
It had me from the very begining and I could not put it down.
I read it in half a day.
They do not have the second, third or fourth on Barnes and Noble so I will be ordering them from Amazon because I mu I found this book for free for the Nook on Barnes and Noble and I took a shot.
I am glad I did.
I have a major book hangover from reading this one!
The plot is fantastic and is paced very well.
It had me from the very begining and I could not put it down.
I read it in half a day.
They do not have the second, third or fourth on Barnes and Noble so I will be ordering them from Amazon because I must know what happens.
The story is full of hope, sadness, triumph and loss.
I found myself caring for all the main characters involved and hating some that I am still not sure where they fall on the good or dl test slot booking scale.
This was one of the best books I have gotten for free with no knowledge of it to begin with.
I like the Matrix type story and the concept.
However, the book felt thrown together and lacking in the details.
I couldn't get past that the author never addressed how the people on Trew's planet were able to experience the faster time from the computer game of "Earth" in their real time.
And the time lapse kept changing throughout the book.
Some instances the time was 1:1, but other cases a few hours meant years in the game.
There was no consistency.
It estimated 5 to 6 weeks for 70 years in " I like the Matrix type story and the concept.
However, the book felt thrown together and lacking in the details.
I couldn't get past that the author never addressed how the people on Trew's planet were able to experience the faster time from the computer game of "Earth" in their real time.
And the time lapse kept changing throughout the book.
Some instances the time was 1:1, but other cases a few hours meant years in the game.
There was no consistency.
It estimated 5 to 6 weeks for the the rings free online book lord of years in "Earth," but when Trew was 40 they gave the same time frame for him to live to 70.
In order for that to happen, every day on Trew's planet meant 2 years on "Earth.
The characters were poorly developed and the "game" dynamics took over any interest in the characters.
The plot also had a ton of holes.
It didn't explain why kids, who had parents, were sent to the educational camps that were basically slave labor, instead of home to their parents.
And then how those kids lead productive lives after their forced slavery.
At no point did the author show what Trew's planet even looked like or how it functioned outside of "Earth.
} The other planet was pretty pointless to the plot.
Overall, it was an interesting concept that could have been handled a lot better.
The author wasn't able to bring it together in an developed way.
You will not be able to sleep unless you can turn off the millions of questions that come to mind when you finish reading.
This is the first book in a series and it definitely needs a sequel.
The problem is, it isn't published yet!
That being said, on to the review.
Somewhere 'out' there, our real bodies are plugged into a very real virtual reality simulation.
You will not be able to sleep unless you can turn off the millions of questions that come to mind when you finish reading.
This is the first book in a series and it definitely needs a sequel.
The problem is, it isn't published yet!
That being said, on to the review.
Somewhere 'out' there, our real bodies are plugged into a very real virtual reality simulation.
Earth isn't real, but it's important to those running the game.
What we call God, or Allah, or the Universe, or whatever spiritual name religion gives it.
How can I be so sure of this?
Because I've spoken to it.
And it has spoken to me.
This game was created to replace the government school system on Tygon.
Children are given credits to purchase what they need in the game.
You live your life as best you can and, when you die, you return to your real body taking the lessons you learned and the memories of the experiences you had.
Many return to live multiple lifetimes, many do not.
You have no memory of the real world, or at least you're not supposed to.
His goal is to retire from the game as the 1 player.
All of Tygon will be watching to see if he succeeds.
Alexandra failed miserably a year ago when she last entered The Game and has been sent to one of the best government schools read: Oliver Twist-like living conditions and working in sewers and other lovely places like them.
Because this year is the 30th anniversary of The Game, a free play is awarded to a random contestant.
One last note, the last time Zack and Alexandra were in The Game together, they tried hard to find each other in The Game and get married.
They failed, Alex's avatar died, and Zack could not find Alex when he came out of statis.
Brandon Strayne is Zack's patron.
He has a hidden agenda somewhere in this 30th anniversary edition of The Game, but it has not yet been revealed.
All we know is that time is running out.
Review: The Writing: The writing is very good.
The editing is so-so.
A few well-spent dollars would have gone a long way toward making this good book excellent.
There were not a lot of typos, but there were enough to be occasionally distracting.
The author has an engaging writing style.
I cannot say that I could not put this book down, but it was not because I did not want to know what was happening.
It was because I had to give my brain a break.
Some of the stuff that happens is so mind-boggling, you just need to set the book aside for awhile and come back to it later.
Spiritual Content: Good and bad.
There are some things I really love about the spirituality in this book.
In The Game, Zack and Alex's avatars are big into spirituality.
This is obviously where the author himself leans and he makes that a decent sized theme of the book.
This turns me off slightly, but since it is not discussed at length, I am willing to look past it.
continue reading, because of this, I would recommend that only mature Christians read this book.
Sexual Content: The sexual content was kept behind closed doors or was barely hinted at.
A reporter flirts and sends suggestive hints to Brandon with her eyes.
Personally, I think these could have been left out, but they weren't.
None of them are in detail and, as I said, only suggested, so it would not deter me from reading it again or recommending it to others.
Language: There are a few four letter words, mostly if not all dān.
Conclusion: I recommend this book to mature readers for three reasons: 1.
The main problem that I had with it is that the second book isn't out yet!
The ending is powerful and makes you desperately want more.
The author makes it very obvious that a sequel was planned.
After all, time is still running out.
I discovered this book this morning and finished it in 4 hours after barely stopping to take a breathe.
It's simply a really good read and right down my alley in terms of personal interests.
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The idea of The Game immediately appealed to me in the same way Ready Player One by Ernie Cline did.
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It's simply a really good read and right down my alley in terms of personal interests.
I stumbled upon this through Book Barbarian and their daily email that alerts me to a couple of free or cheap books going on Amazon.
The idea of The Game immediately appealed to me in the same way Ready Player One by Ernie Cline did.
It involves sending children into a virtual reality world to essentially lead practice lives so that they may be productive and wise human beings by the time they become adults.
It has replaced school as the primary source of education and rewards players with credits for achievements that they can spend to play again or purchase upgrades like luck.
The twist on this is that right now, you and I are playing through one of our practice lives and could at any time wake up in the real world.
Our story revolves around a boy called Zack who is weeks away from his 18th birthday and has time for one more game.
He is a fantastic player who has just finished a game at the age of 76 virtual years, is ranked 2nd and has decided to invest every credit he has on making sure his last game is the best ever and will let him retire as number one.
I'm still getting my thoughts together but fuck me for a free book it was a real treat.
This may be the best philosophical work I have ever read.
Of course, on one level it is simply a work of fiction.
On another level, I found myself consciously slowing down and taking breaks to ponder the abundance of ideas and wisdom.
As a 70 year old man, who has lead an unusually exciting and fulfilling life, I found this book contains a remarkable mixture of inspiring hope and disarming cynicism.
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This may be the best philosophical work I have ever read.
Of course, on one level it is simply a work of fiction.
On another level, I found myself consciously slowing down and taking breaks to ponder the abundance of ideas and wisdom.
As a 70 year old man, who has lead an unusually exciting and fulfilling life, I found this book contains a remarkable mixture of inspiring hope and disarming cynicism.
There is clearly a message here, and it is written well enough to be sure the message you receive, is your own.
Put this on your must read list.
I feel like the concept of this book had so much potential that just wasn't explored.
I didn't feel connected to any of the characters and I felt like every plot device raised more questions than it answered.
The amount of things not explained to the reader was infuriating.
That's not to mention the poor grammar and spelling.
Sorry, just didn't feel it.
This a truly horrible book.
Let me explain it this way: have you ever seen a young kid at the beach?
A kid who tries to build a sand castle a little too close to the water?
So, they're working with over saturated wet sand and the waves are crashing in taking bits of the foundation little by little.
But they're just a kid so they just keep trying to pile more and more crap sand on top and things that don't make sense like twigs, rocks and maybe some seaweed because it's there.
You ever seen that?
This a truly horrible book.
Let me explain it this way: have you ever seen a young kid at the beach?
A kid who tries to build a sand castle a little too close to the water?
So, they're working with over saturated wet sand and the waves are crashing in taking bits of the foundation little by little.
But they're just a kid so they just keep trying to pile more and more crap sand on top and things that don't make sense like twigs, rocks and maybe some seaweed because it's there.
You ever seen that?
Well that's what this book is.
Synopsis: The world went to hell so a guy decided to build a matrix to teach kids about life I guess.
Kids the game book review terry schott are placed inside the matrix for a few weeks to live the game book review terry schott entire lifetimes.
They don't know they're in the matrix when they get put into the matrix.
When they come out they're supposed to have life skills and whatever career skills they learned while in this matrix game.
They also hope to earn credits during game play so that they can go back into the matrix otherwise they go to schools so terrible the author couldn't even describe them.
The world decided it was a great idea for kids as young as 5 years old to learn about and experience sexual and emotional relationships, the hardships of being an adult, suicide, murder, mental health issues, drugs and all the rest.
Adults can tune into kids matrix lives.
They pay to view them as if they're subscribing to a youtube channel.
They also get paid days off to watch major events in these kids lives.
The author makes a point of telling you that the matrix world is better than the real world which is why people over 18 can't play.
Because jobs I guess.
You earn credits by getting lots of subscribers and also by affecting other users in the matrix.
So Jesus would earn more credits than a hermit.
Unless the hermit's life was crazy interesting and they got a lot of subscribers.
A players life cannot be DVR'ed, recorded, rewound or paused so you have to watch it "real-time".
A lifetime lasts between 6-8 weeks.
A decade is approximately 10 days.
You can do the math but watching anything at that speed is ludicrous.
Especially if you're subscribed to multiple people and can't rewind the feed ever.
To combat this they made players talk to themselves in their heads in order to be able to understand better but even that is sped up so I'm sure it's like listening to The Chimpunks at 1000x times their usual speed.
The writing is worse.
In the book women are just accessories and have no real personalities.
The male character we follow him when he leaves the house, when he visits his parents, when he buys a car, when he goes to lunch with friends.
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We don't really see her outside the house.
We don't see her doing mundane adult chores.
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How does the author get around this?
He just talks about her life in passing or she's in the presence of the male character and they do things together.
Everyone talks the same way whether they are 8 or 88.
We're supposed to fall in love with the main character because he's supposed to be charismatic and humble.
But he comes the game book review terry schott as a pretentious dick.
It's hard to like someone who has no faults or worries in life.
He's rich, handsome, he has great parents, he has a beautiful wife and does not want for anything.
He feels the need to tell us this time and time again.
The author also occasionally forgets about some of his characters so they pop up once and you never hear about them again.
Or they pop up once at the beginning and then don't pop up until the very end.
Even then they only get a throw away line just so the author can remind the reader that "Hey, I totally remembered this character I swear.
And stuff about "angels" and "demons" but it's the matrix so.
And it gets explained but it's dumb so it doesn't really explain much.
Then there's stuff about an in game weapon that also makes no sense but you know it's cool because reasons.
I could go on and on and on about the issues I had with this book but I'll let you get on with your day and read literally anything else.
How about the back of the cereal box.
I really enjoyed Schott's The Game.
He does a great job coelascing the the two worlds in the story together and coming up with reasons for the everyday to the unusual in our world.
Just be aware it ends with a major cliffhanger.
Imagine that we're living on Earth right now, but we're just computer generated avatars controlled by players in another reality.
Free ebooks are usually a hit or miss, so I'm typically weary when I start reading one.
This was possibly the best free ebook I've ever read!
It's got me feeling some type of way.
I really cannot explain how philosophical this book really was.
I'm sure that sounds goofy as fuck, but there are things in the book that honestly make you think.
No, th Imagine that we're living on Earth right now, but we're just computer generated avatars controlled by players in another reality.
Free ebooks are usually a hit or miss, so I'm typically weary when I start reading one.
This was possibly the best free ebook I've ever read!
It's got me feeling some type of way.
I really cannot explain how philosophical this book really was.
I'm sure that sounds goofy as fuck, but there are things in the book that honestly make you think.
No, the writing wasn't extraordinary but the author definitely knew how to keep me on the edge of my seat.
I did not want to put this book down and I've never been more excited to purchase the rest of a series.
The plot and pacing were great.
It does end of some-what of a cliffhanger, but not really.
I'm definitely itching to finish the series.
I forgot to highlight more quotes; however, these are two of my favorite ones that I ran across that really hit home for me.
Smile and tuck it away in your memory to be looked at whenever needed.
When you encounter the bad, don't live in the moment.
Let it pass as quickly as it can, don't focus on it, and whatever you do, don't grab onto it and tuck it away in your memory.
The end of the book before the last chapter made me actually say out loud, "But t So I guess I got the edited version, because I didn't see the same sort continue reading grammar twitchiness that others did, and I'm a pretty huge stickler for that stuff.
The end of the book before the last chapter made me actually say out loud, "But that's not supposed to happen!
I really liked the characters.
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I books hunger looking forward to the next installments.
I loved this book.
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When you are born into the virtual reality world, your conscience sits on a table in the real world, Tygon.
Earth is nothing more than a simulation.
Trew Radfield, played by soon to be - or not - Zack Strayne, grows up in a world with powers, people, and a plan to be the best played there ever was.
Are you ready to play The Game?
I thoroughly enjoyed my time reading The Game.
As I read, I found myself hooked and unable to put the book down.
The plot idea was very interesting and surprisingly philosophical; however I felt that Schott didn't develop his ideas to their full potential.
I would still highly recommend The Game to anyone looking for an entertaining read, similar to that of novels like Ender's Game and The Hunger Games.
This was a very appealing story, full of twists and turns and very fun especially towards the end.
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Not by the synopsis alone.
I preordered The Game.
From an unknown to me author.
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The summary pulls at the questions at the back of my mind.
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How did we get here?
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Not by the synopsis alone.
I preordered The Game.
From an unknown to me author.
With the backing of one of my go-to narrators and a publisher, that does a really good job of picking up extraordinary titles.
The summary pulls at the questions at the back of my mind.
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
What is the point of visit web page />Well, what if the point of life was to do your best at it.
All the while scoring points in the game called life.
That is exactly where Zach, the protagonist, finds himself.
Albeit with a twist.
Tygon is a world very similar to Earth.
Pretty much everything is very similar, technology, corporations, and the media rule.
However, the one major difference is this.
Think of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, similar to World of Warcraft.
The world where the game takes place is a different planet called Earth.
Everyone there is playing the game.
If you get more fans and followers, when you come out of The Game you are rewarded with fame and fortune.
But only if you have a fan base and can place in the ranking of all of the other players.
We get to follow his game life, from birth to his 40th birthday.
Because in the game 1 day on Tygon is 1 year on Earth.
This happens pretty quickly.
I do not want to give too much away here, so let me say this.
What if while in The Game you found a book that you wrote in your last game, and have no memory of writing, explaining that life is just a game.
Along with that, what if you started to tell people this and they believed you?
Yet so simple as well.
Written in a way that makes sense to me.
I was engrossed from beginning to end.
Not wanting to stop listening for anything.
I had to know what happened next.
WARING: There is a cliffhanger ending.
Followed with a brief sample of the next book in the series that cannot be published soon enough.
Luke Daniels delivered this performance just as soundly as most of the rest that I have heard.
That all seem to always fit the story perfectly.
For younger to older males.
Female voices that are more believable than most speak.
Full of strategic pauses and other unspoken traits of a truly skilled narrator.
Audiobook was purchased for review by ABR.
The Game takes on the good old "what if life on Earth as we know it were just a simulation" premise, in this version one where children from the age of 5 on live entire lifetimes in a virtual reality to allow them to gain valuable skills and life experience they can then apply to their real lifes when they grow up.
The protagonist is Zack, a highly ranked player about to embark on his last game run and determined to finish in the top spot.
In the outside world, a team has assembled to support hi The Game takes on the good old "what if life on Earth as we know it were just a simulation" premise, in this version one where children from the age of 5 on live entire lifetimes in a virtual reality to allow them to gain valuable skills and life experience they can then apply to their real lifes when they grow up.
The protagonist is Zack, a highly ranked player about to embark on his last game run and determined to finish in the top spot.
In the outside world, a team the game book review terry schott assembled to support him, but it turns out that there's a lot more going on than initially meets the eye.
Interesting premise with many promising sounding aspects, but the worldbuilding lacks development and somehow it all just ends up being one big, confusing, half-baked mess in which only about half of what we're told in massive info-dumps makes sense.
The writing is all telling, no showing, and the characters are shallow and not particularly likable.
By the time the whole thing turned into some exceedingly weird take on religion, I had long stopped caring about what was going on.
When I began reading The Game by Terry Schott, I had no expectations.
It was a free book that I found on iBooks and the description sounded good so I decided to read it.
I enjoy reading books that have a fast pace and this was one of those books.
The plot was very complex and kept me reading.
I rated this The Game four stars because of all these reasons, and others, including a great setting and the incredible main idea of the book.
What I did not enjoy about this book was the characters.
They w When I began reading The Game by Terry Schott, I had no expectations.
It was a free book that I found on iBooks and the description sounded good so I decided to read it.
I enjoy reading books that have a fast pace and this was one of those books.
The plot was very complex and kept me reading.
I rated this The Game four stars because of all these reasons, and others, including a great setting and the incredible main idea of the book.
What I did not enjoy about this book was the characters.
They were not introduced see more, and all of them were quite boring, but the great plot made up for where the characterization lacked.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to everyone who has an interest science fiction, and anyone in high school and under because it is a simple book to read with an interesting storyline.
I do not think an adult would like this due to the simplicity of the language.
The Game by Terry Schott is an amazing book, and the best part about it was that it is free.
I thoroughly enjoyed "The Game" written by Terry Schott.
This book is a science-fiction novel that takes place in the future.
Reading this book allowed me to escape my life and enter into Zach's life and his experiences with the game.
I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating because of its unique plot and the fact that the story was taking place in a very interesting futuristic society.
I also enjoyed reading about adventures of all the different characters inside of the game.
Terry Schott did I thoroughly enjoyed "The Game" written by Terry Schott.
This book is a science-fiction novel that takes place in the future.
Reading this book allowed me to escape my life and enter into Zach's life and his experiences with the game.
I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating because of its unique plot and the fact that the story was taking place in a very interesting futuristic society.
I also enjoyed reading about adventures of all the different characters inside of the game.
Terry Schott did a wonderful job of characterizing his characters.
I would recommend this book mainly to young adults because it would be easier to relate to the characters.
The Game is easily one of the more interesting books I've recently read.
Although I haven't finished it yet, the plot is gripping and easy to understand, while not too simplistic.
Terry Schott did an excellent job of switching between perspectives to keep things fresh and making the readers wonder what will happen to Zack and Alex.
I would recommend this book to anyone to like adventure or science fiction.
I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did, as it had a nice, communal development story uploaded to Facebook in parts for friends and had themes I like exploring.
In the end, I finished it just to squeeze out the ideas that the author had, as there were so many it ended up incoherent with little focus.
The Game is a pre-adult virtual reality life system designed to educate the children of Tygon.
The Game is E.
The idea is that the children come out of this system having lived full I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did, as it had a nice, communal development story uploaded to Facebook in parts for friends and had themes I like exploring.
In the end, I finished it just to squeeze out the ideas that the author had, as there were so many it ended up incoherent with little focus.
The Game is a pre-adult virtual reality life system designed to educate the children of Tygon.
The Game is E.
The idea is that the children come out of this system having lived full lives, and can then take that experience into their real life.
Logical inconsistency 2: kids that fail end up in labour camps.
Where are the parents?
Who are the parents?
The Game has been around for 30 years ā where is the supposed societal enlightenment that would come about from the communal wisdom of a generation?
It makes no sense.
Despite massive holes such as these, there were some good ideas, such as the explanations for Angels and Demons, and religion as a whole.
The idea that the Pyramids and other ancient structures were BETA testers.
It had some innovation, but all this was just not enough to paper the cracks.
I am racking my brain trying to figure out how to rate this book.
I listened to the Audible version narrated by Luke Daniels which isn't an option in the book editions in GR.
It's an interesting plot.
It's premise is that Earth is a virtual reality game created to teach kids about life.
It replaces regular schools.
On Earth we are all avatars for the kids playing the game while they are in suspended animation for weeks at a time while taking their tur I am racking my brain trying to figure out how to rate this book.
I listened to the Audible version narrated by Luke Daniels which isn't an option in the book editions in GR.
It's an interesting plot.
It's premise is that Earth is a virtual reality game created to teach kids about life.
It replaces regular schools.
On Earth we are all avatars for the kids playing the game while they are in suspended animation for weeks at a time while taking their turn playing.
A week in their real life is about a decade in the Earth game so they get to experience an entire lifetime each time they play.
They win and lose game credits while playing which turn into real life wealth or lack of when they become too old to play anymore.
Their entire society has become financially dependent on this VR game.
It really is my kind of crazy.
Still, overall, the plot is an easy 4 stars.
My main hangup is in the delivery of the plot.
It is written in 3rd person POV, which tends to distance me from the characters.
On top of that, we are dealing with characters living on two different worlds so we get shuffled back and forth between the two.
Then there are the 'snippets' that happen quite often to give us information or clarify the action for us.
They are blurbs from books, newscast recordings, historical records, etc.
As necessary as they were to explain and move the plot along, they honestly wore me out.
I always prefer being in the middle of the action as opposed to being informed of it.
I can't give the writing anything more than a generous 3 stars.
I can average all this out to a four star, but it would only apply to the Audible version which is not even listed in GR.
So, I've decided to leave the rating blank and let you make up your own mind.
The Game is a weird offspring of the book The Hunger Games and the movie The Truman Show.
The duration and fruitfulness of your life gives you points that put you on places on the ranking in the real world.
Zack, in his The Game is a weird offspring of the book The Hunger Games and the movie The Truman Show.
The duration and fruitfulness of your life gives you points that put you on places on the ranking in the real world.
Zack, in his passed life, went up a lot of rankings and ended up rank two.
But in his next run of the game, things get a little more interesting.
The entire story was very slow but all around amusing.
The characters were well thought out and each one had their own sense of voice.
The romance in the story was enticing and kept you on the edge, but the story was very predictable and ended exactly how you would think.
The originality was not there and just felt like a combination of a ton of other stories.
In other words, it was the most basic sci-fi story you could think of.
It appeals to almost every sci-fi reader because it has every aspect of a sci-fi book, which makes the book very unoriginal.
I enjoyed my time reading The Game.
I found myself hooked and It was a quick read.
The plot idea was very interesting and surprisingly philosophical; however I felt that Schott didn't develop his ideas to their full potential.
I would still recommend The Game to sci-fi Lovers.
Also the originality was not there and just felt like a combination of a ton of other stories.
I did love the ending and him very interested in reading the next book!
This is one of my favorite book series ever!!!!
What a concept to think of what it would be like if we could live out an entire lifetime through Virtual Reality.
The series just keeps getting better so keep reading!
Great concept and story.
Held my attention all the way through.
Only complaint I have is the amount of typos and story edits that made it a bit sloppy.
I think if it had been read through one more time they'd have found them all.
Still, I'd highly recommend it.
Now I must find the second in the series!
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The best players are celebrities, adored and worshiped by countless fans.
Zack is a superstar among players.
His final play may change the world, forever.
Not it does not.
At no point does the author show anything.
All of it is told.
You get to 85% through the book and the author is still telling No.
Not it does not.
At no point does the author show anything.
All of it is told.
You get to 85% through the book and the author is still telling exposition.
Oh MY god, get an editor.
It sounds like it could be learn more here good concept, but I can't deal with the comma splices, run on sentences, spelling errors, and poor grammar enough to get through it.
Glad I got it for free.
Hazards of being an English major - I simply can't cope with poor grammar, no matter the content.
That being s Oh MY god, get an editor.
It sounds like it could be a good concept, but I can't deal with the comma splices, run on sentences, spelling errors, and poor please click for source enough to get through it.
Glad I got it for free.
Hazards of being an English major - I simply can't cope with poor grammar, no matter the content.
That being said, his editor did a great job, and I actually love the book now that I've read the edited version.
Great concept, gripping plot, bit of a disappointing end but I know it's the set-up for a sequel so I'll let it slide.
Audiobook Internal Dialogue Do I make fun of the fact that this is the 2nd audiobook I have listened to that has a 5 star rating on the cover from Amazon Customer?
Do I wonder how good a book originally published in 2012 and now receiving the 2016 luxury Luke Daniels Audiobook treatment could be if the best review in 4 years came from Amazon Customer?
Do I wonder how good a book originally published in 2012 and now receiving the 2016 luxury Luke Daniels Audiobook treatment could be if the best review in 4 years came from Amazon Customer?
The idea that our entire universe is a complex computer simulation has been around for some time.
If we scoff at simulation theory we are denying that humanity will develop the capability to run such complex simulations in the future, which is equally silly.
Similarly all of the problems in plotting a book, such as coincidences and contrivances disappear when our book is set in a simulation!
Good scores or performance in the game will earn credits.
After the age of 14 players are expected to pay for any further incarnations into the game with the credits they have earned as well as to buy upgrades such as luck, health, focus and the like to improve their chances of high achievement.
Players over 14 who have no credits to re-enter the game end up as the dropouts of their society and will be trained as factory workers.
Retirement is mandatory at age 21 and credits earned between 14 and 21 can be used in the real world instead of retrying an incarnation on Earth for more.
Businesses are required to supply leave to allow viewers to tune in to their favourite players games.
There were a few rough edges to the story from first time author Terry Schott.
When a character is asked a question they often answer then go on an extended exposition dump.
There were a few story elements that jarred, such as when for the 30th anniversary of the game a billion souls from the real world took an extra shot at incarnating.
The scoring of the game was never really properly explained, even when at the 90% mark some sort of attempt was made.
I enjoyed the way Schott tied in phenomena like DĆ©jĆ vu, synchronicities and ancient technology into his game theory.
Less successful was the attempt to tie in the Mayan doomsday 2012 prophecy remember that?
It seems like there is the potential for a lot of big revelations and I was hoping for at least one at the end of the book.
LD is great and was the deciding factor for me to check this book out.
So despite some rough edges I devoured this thing in a day and a half and will no doubt purchase the next book if it comes out as a LD-narrated Audiobook.
I can just imagine the author sitting down with buddies at a bar just before the book was written: "I have this idea for a book," he began, "it's a little like Matrix and the Hunger Games.
I found this book for free for the Nook on Barnes and Noble and I took a shot.
I am glad I did.
I have a major book hangover from reading this one!
The plot is fantastic and is paced very well.
It had me from the very begining and I could not put it down.
I read it in half a day.
They do not have the second, third or fourth on Barnes and Noble so I will be ordering them from Amazon because I mu I found this book for free for the Nook on Barnes and Noble and I took a shot.
I am glad I did.
I have a major book hangover from reading this one!
The plot is fantastic and is paced very well.
It had me from the very begining and I could not put it down.
I read it in half a day.
They do not have the second, third or fourth on Barnes and Noble so I will be ordering them from Amazon because I must know what happens.
The story is full of hope, sadness, triumph and loss.
I found myself caring for all the main characters involved and hating some that I am still not sure where they fall on the good or evil scale.
This was one of the best books I have gotten for free with no knowledge of it to begin with.
I like the Matrix type story and the concept.
However, the book felt thrown together and lacking in the details.
I couldn't get past that the author never addressed how the people on Trew's planet were able to experience the faster time from the computer game of "Earth" in their real time.
And the time lapse kept changing throughout the book.
Some instances the time was 1:1, but other cases a few hours meant years in the game.
There was no consistency.
It estimated 5 to 6 weeks for 70 years in " I like the Matrix type story and the concept.
more info, the book felt thrown together and lacking in the details.
I couldn't get past that the author never addressed how the people on Trew's planet were able to experience the faster time from the computer game of "Earth" in their real time.
And the time lapse kept changing throughout the book.
Some instances the time was 1:1, but other cases a few hours meant years in the game.
There was no consistency.
It estimated 5 to 6 weeks for 70 years in "Earth," but when Trew was 40 they gave the same magnificent charlie and the chocolate factory 2019 free online book like frame for him to live to 70.
In order for that to happen, every day on Trew's planet meant 2 years on "Earth.
The characters were poorly developed and the "game" dynamics took over any interest in the characters.
The plot also had a ton of holes.
It didn't explain why kids, who had parents, were sent to the educational camps that were basically slave labor, instead of home to their parents.
And then how those kids lead productive lives after their forced slavery.
At no point did the author show what Trew's planet even looked like or how it functioned outside of "Earth.
} The other planet was pretty pointless to the plot.
Overall, it was an interesting concept that could have been handled a lot better.
The author wasn't able to bring it together in an developed way.
You will not be able to sleep unless you can turn off the millions of questions that come to mind when you finish reading.
This is the first book in a series and it definitely needs a sequel.
The problem is, it isn't published yet!
That being said, on to the review.
Somewhere 'out' there, our real bodies are plugged into a very real virtual reality simulation.
You will not be able to sleep unless you can turn off the millions of questions that come to mind when you finish reading.
This is the first book in a series and it definitely needs a sequel.
The problem is, it isn't published yet!
That being said, on to the review.
Somewhere 'out' there, our real bodies are plugged into a very real virtual reality simulation.
Earth isn't real, but it's important to those running the game.
What we call God, or Allah, or the Universe, or whatever spiritual name religion gives it.
How can I be so sure of this?
Because I've spoken to it.
And it has spoken to me.
This game was created to replace the government school system on Tygon.
Children are given credits to purchase what they need in the game.
You live your life as best you can and, when you die, you return to your real body taking the lessons you learned and the memories of the experiences you had.
Many return to live multiple lifetimes, many do not.
You have no memory of the real world, or at least you're not supposed to.
His goal is to retire from the game as the 1 player.
All of Tygon will be watching to see if he succeeds.
Alexandra failed miserably a year ago when she last entered The Game and has been sent to one of the best government schools read: Oliver Twist-like living conditions and working in sewers and other lovely places like them.
Because this year is the 30th anniversary of The Game, a free play is awarded to a random contestant.
One last note, the last time Zack and Alexandra were in The Game together, they tried hard to find each other in The Game and get married.
They failed, Alex's avatar died, and Zack could not find Alex when he came out of statis.
Brandon Strayne is Zack's patron.
He has a hidden agenda somewhere in this 30th anniversary edition of The Game, but it has not yet been revealed.
All we know is that time is running out.
Review: The Writing: The writing is very good.
The editing is so-so.
A few well-spent dollars would have gone a long way toward making this good book excellent.
There were not a lot of typos, but there were enough to be occasionally distracting.
The author has an engaging writing style.
I cannot say that I could not put this book down, but it was not because I did not want to know what was happening.
It was because I had to give my brain a break.
Some of the stuff that happens is so mind-boggling, you just need to set the book aside for awhile and come back to it later.
Spiritual Content: Good and bad.
There are some things I really love about the spirituality in this book.
In The Game, Zack and Alex's avatars are big into spirituality.
This is obviously where the author himself leans and he makes that a decent sized theme of the book.
This turns me off slightly, but since it is not discussed at length, I am willing to look past it.
However, because of this, I would recommend that only mature Christians read this book.
Sexual Content: The sexual content was kept behind closed doors or was barely hinted at.
A reporter flirts and sends suggestive hints to Brandon with her eyes.
Personally, I think these could have been left out, but they weren't.
None of them are in detail and, as I said, only suggested, so it would not deter me from reading it again or recommending it to others.
Language: There are a few four letter words, mostly if not all dān.
Conclusion: I recommend this book to mature readers for three reasons: 1.
The main problem that I had with it is that the second book isn't out yet!
The ending is powerful and makes you desperately want more.
The author makes it very obvious that a sequel was planned.
After all, time is still running out.
I discovered this book this morning and finished it in 4 hours after barely stopping to take a breathe.
It's simply a really good read and right down my alley in terms of personal interests.
I stumbled upon this through Book Barbarian and their daily email that alerts me to a couple of free or cheap books going on Amazon.
The idea of The Game immediately appealed to me in the same way Ready Player One by Ernie Cline did.
It involves sending children into a virtual reality world to essentially lea I discovered this book this morning and finished it in 4 hours after barely stopping to take a breathe.
It's simply a really good read and right down my alley in terms of personal interests.
I stumbled upon this through Book Barbarian and their daily email that alerts me to a couple of free or cheap books going on Amazon.
The idea of The Game immediately appealed to me in the same way Ready Player One by Ernie Cline did.
It involves sending children into a virtual reality world to essentially lead practice lives so that they may be productive and wise human beings by the time they become adults.
It has replaced school as the primary source of education and rewards players with credits for achievements that they can spend to play again or purchase upgrades like luck.
The twist on this is that right now, you and I are playing through one of our practice lives and could at any time wake up in the real world.
Our story revolves around a boy called Zack who is weeks away from his 18th birthday and has time for one more game.
He is a fantastic player who has just finished a game at the age of 76 virtual years, is ranked 2nd and has decided to invest every credit he has on making sure his last game is the best ever and will let him retire as number one.
I'm still getting my thoughts together but fuck me for a free book it was a real treat.
This may be the best philosophical work I have ever read.
Of course, on one level it is simply a work of fiction.
On another level, I found myself consciously slowing down and taking breaks to ponder the abundance of ideas and wisdom.
As a 70 year old man, who has lead an unusually exciting and fulfilling life, I found this book contains a remarkable mixture of inspiring hope and disarming cynicism.
There is clearly a message here, and it is written well enough to be sure the A complete surprise.
This may be the best philosophical work I have ever read.
Of course, on one level it is simply a work of fiction.
On another level, I found myself consciously slowing down and taking breaks to ponder the abundance of ideas and wisdom.
As a 70 year old man, who has lead an unusually exciting and fulfilling life, I found this book contains a remarkable mixture of inspiring hope and disarming cynicism.
There is clearly a message here, and it is written well enough to be sure the message you receive, is your own.
Put this on your must read list.
I feel like the concept of this book had so much potential that just wasn't explored.
I didn't feel connected to any of the characters and I felt like every plot device raised more questions than it answered.
The amount of things not explained to the reader was infuriating.
That's not to mention the poor grammar and spelling.
Sorry, just didn't feel it.
This a truly horrible book.
Let me explain it this way: have you ever seen a young kid at the beach?
A kid who tries to build a sand castle a little too close to the water?
So, they're working with over saturated wet sand and the waves are crashing in taking bits of the foundation little by little.
But they're just a kid so they just keep trying to pile more and more crap sand on top and things that don't make sense like twigs, rocks and maybe some seaweed because it's there.
You ever seen that?
This a truly horrible book.
Let me explain it this way: have you ever seen a young kid at the beach?
A kid who tries to build a sand castle a little too close to the water?
So, they're working with over saturated wet sand and the waves are crashing in taking bits of the foundation little by little.
But they're just a kid so they just keep trying to pile more and more crap sand on top and things that don't make sense like twigs, rocks and maybe some seaweed because it's there.
You ever seen that?
Well that's what this book is.
Synopsis: The world went to hell so a guy decided to build a matrix to teach kids about life I guess.
Kids 5-18 are placed inside the matrix for a few weeks to live out entire lifetimes.
They don't know they're in the matrix when they get put into the matrix.
When they come out they're supposed to have life skills and whatever career skills they learned while in this matrix game.
They also hope to earn credits during game play so that they can go back into the matrix otherwise they go to schools so terrible the author couldn't even describe them.
The world decided it was a great idea for kids as young as 5 years old to learn about and experience sexual and emotional relationships, the hardships of being an adult, suicide, murder, mental health issues, drugs and all the rest.
Adults can tune into kids matrix lives.
They pay to view them as if they're subscribing to a youtube channel.
They also get paid days off to watch major events in these kids lives.
The author makes a point of telling you that the matrix world is better than the real world which is why people over 18 can't play.
Because jobs I guess.
You earn credits by getting lots of subscribers and also by affecting other users in the matrix.
So Jesus would earn more credits than a hermit.
Unless the hermit's life was crazy interesting and they got a lot of subscribers.
A players life cannot be DVR'ed, recorded, rewound or paused so you have to watch it "real-time".
A lifetime lasts between 6-8 weeks.
A decade is approximately 10 days.
You can do the math but watching anything at that speed is ludicrous.
Especially if you're subscribed to multiple people and can't rewind the feed ever.
To combat this they made players talk to themselves in their heads in order to be able to understand better but even that is sped up so I'm sure it's like jocuri book of ra to The Chimpunks at 1000x times their usual speed.
The writing is worse.
In the book women are just accessories and have no real personalities.
The male character we follow him when he leaves the house, when he visits his parents, when he buys a car, when he goes to lunch with friends.
The female character we only see through the lens of her affect on the male character.
We don't really see her outside the house.
We don't see her doing mundane adult chores.
We don't see her at a job.
How does the author get around this?
He just click to see more about her life in passing or she's in the presence of the male character and they do things together.
Everyone talks the same way whether they are 8 or 88.
We're supposed to fall in love with the main character because he's supposed to be charismatic and humble.
But he comes off as a pretentious dick.
It's hard to like someone who has no faults or worries in life.
He's rich, handsome, he has great parents, he has a beautiful wife and does not want for anything.
He feels the need to tell us this time and time again.
The author also occasionally forgets about some of his characters so they pop up once and you never hear about them again.
Or they pop up once at the beginning and then don't pop up until the very end.
Even then they only get a throw away line just so the author can remind the reader that "Hey, I totally remembered this character I swear.
And stuff about "angels" and "demons" but it's the matrix so.
And it gets explained but it's dumb so it doesn't really explain much.
Then there's stuff about an in game weapon that also makes no sense but you know it's cool because reasons.
I could go on and on and on about the issues I had with this book but I'll let you get on with your day and read literally anything else.
How about the back of the cereal box.
I really enjoyed Schott's The Game.
He does a great job coelascing the the two worlds in the story together and coming up with reasons for the everyday to the unusual in our world.
Just be aware it ends with a major cliffhanger.
Imagine that we're living on Earth right now, but we're just computer generated avatars controlled by players in another reality.
Free ebooks are usually a hit or miss, so I'm typically weary when I start reading one.
This was possibly the best free ebook I've ever read!
It's got me feeling some type of way.
I really cannot explain how philosophical this book really was.
I'm sure that sounds goofy as fuck, but there are things in the book that honestly make you think.
No, th Imagine that we're living on Earth right now, but we're just computer generated avatars controlled by players in another reality.
Free ebooks are usually a hit or miss, dl test slot booking I'm typically weary when I start reading one.
This was possibly the best free ebook I've ever read!
It's got me feeling some type of way.
I really cannot explain how philosophical this book really was.
I'm sure the game book review terry schott sounds goofy as fuck, but there are things in the book that honestly make you think.
No, the writing wasn't extraordinary but the author definitely knew how to keep me on the edge of my seat.
I did not want to put this book down and I've never been more excited to purchase the rest of a series.
The plot and pacing were great.
It does end of some-what of a cliffhanger, but not really.
I'm definitely itching to finish the series.
I forgot to highlight more quotes; however, these are two of my favorite ones that I ran across that really hit home for me.
Smile and tuck it away in your memory to be looked at whenever needed.
When you encounter the bad, don't live in the moment.
Let it pass as quickly as it can, don't focus on it, and whatever you do, don't grab onto it and tuck it away in your memory.
The end of the book before the last chapter made me actually say out loud, "But t So I guess I got the edited version, because I didn't see the same sort of grammar twitchiness that others did, and I'm a pretty huge stickler for that stuff.
The end of the book before the last chapter made me actually say out loud, "But that's not supposed to click here />I really liked the characters.
The pacing was a little weird for me to adjust to and there were some parts of it I had to go back and re-read to make sure I was understanding it properly, but wow.
I am looking forward to the next installments.
I loved this book.
Not only is it an amazing science fiction story, it adds in "glimpses of the past" since it takes place in the game book review terry schott worlds.
When you are born into the virtual reality world, your conscience sits on a table in the real world, Tygon.
Earth is nothing more than a simulation.
Trew Radfield, played by soon to be - or not - Zack Strayne, grows up in a world with powers, people, and a plan to be the best played there ever was.
Are you ready to play The Game?
I thoroughly enjoyed my time reading The Game.
As I read, I found myself hooked and unable to put the book down.
The plot idea was very interesting and surprisingly philosophical; however I felt that Schott didn't develop his ideas to their full potential.
I would still highly recommend The Game to anyone looking for an entertaining read, similar to that of novels like Ender's Game and The Hunger Games.
This was a very appealing story, full of twists and turns and very fun especially towards the end.
My original audiobook review and many others can be found at.
Not by the synopsis alone.
I preordered The Game.
From an unknown to me author.
With the backing of one of my go-to narrators and a publisher, that does a really good job of picking up extraordinary titles.
The summary pulls at the questions at the back of my mind.
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
What is the point of life?
Well, what if the point of life was to do your best at it.
All the while scoring My original audiobook review and many others can be found at.
Not by the synopsis alone.
I preordered The Game.
From an unknown to me author.
With the backing of one of my go-to narrators and a publisher, that does a really good job of picking up extraordinary titles.
The summary pulls at the questions at the back of my mind.
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
What is the point of life?
Well, what if the point of life was to do your best at it.
All the while scoring points in the game called life.
That is exactly where Zach, the protagonist, finds himself.
Albeit with a twist.
Tygon is a world very similar to Earth.
Pretty much everything is very similar, technology, corporations, and the media rule.
However, the one major difference is this.
Think of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, similar to World of Warcraft.
The world where the game takes place is a different planet called Earth.
Everyone there is playing the game.
If you get more fans and followers, when you come out of The Game you are rewarded with fame and fortune.
But only if you have a fan base and can place in the ranking of all of the other players.
We get to follow his game life, from birth to his 40th birthday.
Because in the game 1 day on Tygon is 1 year on Earth.
This happens pretty quickly.
I do not want to give too much away here, so let me say this.
What if while in The Game you found a book that you wrote in your last game, and have no memory of writing, explaining that life is just a game.
Along with that, what if you started to tell people this and they believed you?
Yet so simple as well.
Written in a way that makes sense to me.
I was engrossed from beginning to end.
Not wanting to stop listening for anything.
I had to know what happened next.
WARING: There is a cliffhanger ending.
Followed with a brief sample of the next book in the series that cannot be published soon enough.
Luke Daniels delivered this performance just as soundly as most of the rest that I have heard.
That all seem to always fit the story perfectly.
For younger to older males.
Female voices that are more believable than most speak.
Full of strategic pauses and other unspoken traits of a truly skilled narrator.
Audiobook was purchased for review by ABR.
The Game takes on the good old "what if life on Earth as we know it were just a simulation" premise, in this version one where children from the age of 5 on live entire lifetimes in a virtual reality to allow them to gain valuable skills and life experience they can then apply to their real lifes when they grow up.
The protagonist is Zack, a highly ranked player about to embark on his last game run and determined to finish in the top spot.
In the outside world, a team has assembled to support hi The Game takes on the good old "what if life on Earth as we know it were just a simulation" premise, in this version one where children from the age of 5 on live entire lifetimes in a virtual reality to allow them to gain valuable skills and life experience they can then apply to their real lifes when they grow up.
The protagonist is Zack, a highly ranked player about to embark on his last game run and determined to finish in the top spot.
In the outside world, a team has assembled to support him, but it turns out that there's a lot more going on than initially meets the eye.
Interesting premise with many promising sounding aspects, but the worldbuilding lacks development and somehow it all just ends up being one big, confusing, half-baked mess in which only about half of what we're told in massive info-dumps makes sense.
The writing is all telling, no showing, and the characters are shallow and not particularly likable.
By the time the whole thing turned into some exceedingly weird take on religion, I had long stopped caring about what was going on.
When I began reading The Game by Terry Schott, I had no expectations.
It was a free book that I found on iBooks and the description sounded good so I decided to read it.
I enjoy reading books that have a fast pace and this was one of those books.
The plot was very complex and kept me reading.
I rated this The Game four stars because of all these reasons, and others, including a great setting and the incredible main idea of the book.
What I did not enjoy about this book was the characters.
They w When I began reading The Game by Terry Schott, I had no expectations.
It was a free book that I found on iBooks and the description sounded good so I decided to read it.
I enjoy reading books that have a fast pace and this was one of those books.
The plot was very complex and kept me reading.
I rated this The Game four stars because of all these reasons, and others, including a great setting and the incredible main idea of the book.
What I did not enjoy about this book was the characters.
They were not introduced well, and all of them were quite boring, but the great plot made up for where the characterization lacked.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to everyone who has an interest science fiction, and anyone in high school and under because it is a simple book to read with an interesting storyline.
I do not think an adult would like this due to the simplicity of the language.
The Game by Terry Schott is an amazing book, and the best part about it was that it is free.
I thoroughly enjoyed "The Game" written by Terry Schott.
This book is a science-fiction novel that takes place in the future.
Reading this book allowed me to escape my life and enter into Zach's life and his experiences with the game.
I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating because of its unique plot and the fact that the story was taking place in a very interesting futuristic society.
I also enjoyed reading about adventures of all the different characters inside of the game.
Terry Schott did I thoroughly enjoyed "The Game" written by Terry Schott.
This book is a science-fiction novel that takes place in the future.
Reading this book allowed me to escape my life and enter into Zach's life and his experiences with the game.
I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating because of its unique plot and the fact that the story was taking place in a very interesting futuristic society.
I also enjoyed reading about adventures of all the different characters inside of the game.
Terry Schott did a wonderful job of characterizing his characters.
I would recommend this book mainly to young adults because it would be easier to relate to the characters.
The Game is easily one of the more interesting books I've recently read.
Although I haven't finished it yet, the plot is gripping and easy to understand, while not too simplistic.
Terry Schott did an excellent job of switching between perspectives to keep things fresh and making the readers wonder what will happen to Zack and Alex.
I would recommend this book to anyone to like adventure or science fiction.
I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did, as it had a nice, communal development story uploaded to Facebook in parts for friends and had themes I like exploring.
In the end, I finished it just to squeeze out the ideas that the author had, as there were so many it ended up incoherent with little focus.
The Game is a pre-adult virtual reality life system designed to educate the children of Tygon.
The Game is E.
The idea is that the children come out of this system having lived full I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did, as it had a nice, communal development story uploaded to Facebook in parts for friends and had themes I like exploring.
In the end, I the game book review terry schott it just to squeeze out the ideas that the author had, as there were so many it ended up incoherent with little focus.
The Game is a pre-adult virtual reality life system designed to educate the children of Tygon.
The Game is E.
The idea is that the children come out of this system having lived full lives, and can then take that experience into their real life.
Logical inconsistency 2: kids that fail end up in labour camps.
Where are the parents?
Who are the parents?
The Game has been around for 30 years ā where is the supposed societal enlightenment that would come about from the communal wisdom of a generation?
It makes no sense.
Despite massive holes such as these, there were some good ideas, such as the explanations for Angels and Demons, and religion as a whole.
The idea that the Pyramids and other ancient structures were BETA testers.
It had some innovation, but all this was just not enough to paper the cracks.
I am racking my brain trying to figure out how to rate this book.
I listened to the Audible version narrated by Luke Daniels which isn't an option in the book editions in GR.
It's an interesting plot.
It's premise is that Earth is a virtual reality game created to teach kids about life.
It replaces regular schools.
On Earth we are all avatars for the kids playing the game while they are in suspended animation for weeks at a time while taking their tur I am racking my brain trying to figure out how to rate this book.
I listened to the Audible article source narrated by Luke Daniels which isn't an option in the book editions in GR.
It's an interesting plot.
It's premise is that Earth is a virtual reality game created to teach kids about life.
It replaces regular schools.
On Earth we are all avatars for the kids playing the game while they are in suspended animation for weeks at a time while taking their turn playing.
A week in their real life is about a decade in the Earth game so they get to experience an entire lifetime each time they play.
They win and lose game credits while playing which turn into real life wealth or lack of when they become too old to play anymore.
Their entire society has become financially dependent on this VR game.
It really is my kind of crazy.
Still, overall, the plot is an easy 4 stars.
My main hangup is in the delivery of the plot.
It is written in 3rd person POV, which tends to distance me from the characters.
On top of that, we are dealing with characters living on two different worlds so we get shuffled back and forth between the two.
Then there are the 'snippets' that happen quite often to give us information or clarify the action for us.
They are blurbs from books, newscast recordings, historical records, etc.
As necessary as they were to explain and move the plot along, they honestly wore me out.
I always prefer being in the middle of the action as opposed to being informed of it.
I can't give the writing anything more than a generous 3 stars.
I can average all this out to a four star, but it would only apply to the Audible version which is not even listed in GR.
So, I've decided to leave the rating blank and let you make up your own mind.
The Game is a weird offspring of the book The Hunger Games and the movie The Truman Show.
The duration and fruitfulness of your life gives you points that put you on places on the ranking in the real world.
Zack, in his The Game is a weird offspring of the book The Hunger Games and the movie The Truman Show.
The duration and fruitfulness of your life gives you points that put you on places on the ranking in the real world.
Zack, in his passed life, went up a lot of rankings and ended up rank two.
But in his next run of the game, things get a little more interesting.
The entire story was very slow but all around amusing.
The characters were well thought out and each one had their own sense of voice.
The romance in the story was enticing and kept https://eronline.ru/book/game-jungle-book-online.html on the edge, but the story was very predictable and ended exactly how you would think.
The originality was not there and just felt like a combination of a ton of other stories.
It appeals to almost every sci-fi reader because it has every aspect of a sci-fi book, which makes the book very unoriginal.
I enjoyed my time reading The Game.
I found myself hooked and It was a quick read.
The plot idea was very interesting and surprisingly philosophical; however I felt that Schott didn't develop his ideas to their full potential.
I would still recommend The Game to sci-fi Lovers.
Also the originality was not there and just felt like a combination of a ton of other stories.
I did love the ending and him very interested in reading the next book!
This is one of my favorite book series ever!!!!
What a concept to think of what it would be like if we could live out an entire lifetime through Virtual Reality.
The series just keeps getting better so click here reading!
Great concept and story.
Held my attention all the way through.
Only complaint I have is the amount of typos and story edits that made it a bit sloppy.
I think if it had been read through one more time they'd have found them all.
Still, I'd highly recommend it.
Now I must find the second in the series!
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Great Book, Great Series! A Must Read Author! All his characters are well developed and he really brings you into their alternate "world". Everything Terry reveals to you has a purpose, something he told you before has more meaning later in the story.
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Filled with ups and downs with truly inspiring characters to fall in love with.
Definitely makes you feel like winning the game for yourself.
This work of inspiration did more than appease my need for literature.
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My future thanks you.
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Mr. Terry Schott : Twitter @schottsi. Hi, Itās Tiffany. I present you the āAuthor of the Dayādrum rollsā. It is the talented writer Terry Schott who wrote the the fascinating series āThe Game is Lifeā. I stumbled on this series because the 1st book is free as a kindle edition.
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The best players are celebrities, adored and worshiped by countless fans.
Zack is a superstar among players.
His final play may here the world, forever.
Not it does not.
At no point does the author show anything.
All of it is told.
You get to 85% through the book and the author is still telling No.
Not it does not.
At no point does the author show anything.
All of it is told.
You get to 85% through the book and the author is still telling exposition.
Oh MY god, get an editor.
It sounds like it could be a good concept, but I can't deal with the comma splices, run on sentences, spelling errors, and poor grammar enough to get through it.
Glad I got it for free.
Hazards of being an English major - I simply can't cope with poor grammar, no matter the content.
That being s Oh MY god, get an editor.
It sounds like it could be a good concept, but I can't deal with the comma splices, run on sentences, spelling errors, and poor grammar enough to get through it.
Glad I got it for free.
Hazards of being an English major - I simply can't cope with poor grammar, no matter the content.
That being said, his editor did a great job, and I actually love the book now that I've read the edited version.
Great concept, gripping plot, bit of a disappointing end but I know it's the set-up for a sequel so I'll let it slide.
Audiobook Internal Dialogue Do I make fun of the fact that this is the 2nd audiobook I have listened to that has a 5 star rating on the cover from Amazon Customer?
Do I wonder how good a book originally published in 2012 and now receiving the 2016 luxury Luke Daniels Audiobook treatment could be if the best review in 4 years came from Amazon Customer?
Do I wonder how good a book originally published in 2012 and now receiving the 2016 luxury Luke Daniels Audiobook treatment could be if the best review in 4 years came from Amazon Customer?
The idea that our entire universe the game book review terry schott a complex computer simulation has been around for some time.
If we scoff at simulation theory we are denying that humanity will develop the capability to run such complex simulations in the future, which is equally silly.
Similarly all of the problems in plotting a book, such as coincidences and contrivances disappear when our go here is set in a simulation!
Good scores or performance in the game will earn credits.
After the age of 14 players are expected to pay for any further incarnations into the game with the credits they have earned as well as to buy upgrades such as luck, health, focus and the like to improve their chances of high achievement.
Players over 14 who have no credits to re-enter the game end up as the dropouts of their society and will be trained as factory workers.
Retirement is mandatory at age 21 and credits earned between 14 and 21 can be used in the real world instead of retrying an incarnation on Earth for more.
Businesses are required to supply leave to allow viewers to tune in to their favourite players games.
There were a few rough edges to the the game book review terry schott from first time author Terry Schott.
When a character is asked a question they often answer then go on an extended exposition dump.
There were a few story elements that jarred, such as when for the 30th anniversary of the game a billion souls from the real world took an extra shot at incarnating.
The scoring of the game was never really remarkable, charlie and the chocolate factory 2019 free online book that explained, even when at the 90% mark some sort of attempt was made.
I enjoyed the way Schott tied in phenomena like DĆ©jĆ vu, synchronicities and ancient technology into his game theory.
Less successful was the attempt to tie in the Mayan doomsday 2012 prophecy remember that?
It seems like there is the potential for a lot of big revelations and I was hoping for at least one at the end of the book.
LD is great and was the deciding factor for me to check this book out.
So despite some rough edges I devoured this thing in a day and a half and will no doubt purchase the next book if it comes out as a LD-narrated Audiobook.
I can just imagine the author sitting down with buddies at a bar just before the book was written: "I have this idea for a book," he began, "it's a little like Matrix and the Hunger Games.
I found this book for free for the Nook on Barnes and Noble and I took a shot.
I am glad I did.
I have a major book hangover from reading this one!
The plot is fantastic and is paced very well.
It had me from the very begining and I could not put it down.
I read it in half a day.
They do not have the second, third or fourth on Barnes and Noble so I will be ordering them from Amazon because I mu I found this book for free for the Nook on Barnes and Noble and I took a shot.
I please click for source glad I did.
I have a major book hangover from reading this one!
The plot is fantastic and is paced very well.
It had me from the very begining and I could not put it down.
I read it in half a day.
They do not have the second, third or fourth on Barnes and Noble so I will be ordering them from Amazon because I must know what happens.
The story is full of hope, sadness, triumph and loss.
I found myself caring for all the main characters involved and hating some that I am still not sure where they fall on the good or evil scale.
This was one of the best books I have gotten for free with no knowledge of it to begin with.
I like the Matrix type story and the concept.
However, the book felt thrown together and lacking in the details.
I couldn't get past that the author never addressed how the people on Trew's planet were able to experience the faster time from the computer game of "Earth" in their real time.
And the time lapse kept changing throughout the book.
Some instances the time was 1:1, but other cases a few hours meant years in the game.
There was no consistency.
It estimated 5 to 6 weeks for 70 years in " I like the Matrix type story and the concept.
However, the book felt thrown together and lacking in the details.
I couldn't get past that the author never addressed how the people on Trew's planet were able to experience the faster time from the computer game of "Earth" in their real time.
And the time lapse kept changing throughout the book.
Some instances the time was 1:1, but other cases a few hours meant years in the game.
There was no consistency.
It estimated 5 to 6 weeks for 70 years in "Earth," but when Trew was 40 they gave the same time frame for him to live to 70.
In order for that to happen, every day on Trew's planet meant 2 years on "Earth.
The characters were poorly developed and the "game" dynamics took over any interest in the characters.
The plot also had a ton of holes.
It didn't explain why kids, who had parents, were sent to the educational camps that were basically slave labor, instead of home to their parents.
And then how those kids lead productive lives after their forced slavery.
At no point did the author show what Trew's planet even looked like or how it functioned outside of "Earth.
} The other planet was pretty pointless to the plot.
Overall, it was an interesting concept that could have been handled a lot better.
The author wasn't able to bring it together in an developed way.
You will not be able to sleep unless you can turn off the millions of questions that come to mind when you finish reading.
This is the first book in a series and it definitely needs a sequel.
The problem is, it isn't published yet!
That being book game online jungle, on to the review.
Somewhere 'out' there, our real bodies are plugged into a very real virtual reality simulation.
You will not be able to sleep unless you can turn off the millions of questions that come to mind when you finish reading.
This is the first book in a series and it definitely needs a sequel.
The problem is, it isn't published yet!
That being said, on to the review.
Somewhere 'out' there, our real bodies are plugged into a very real virtual reality simulation.
Earth isn't real, but it's important to those running the game.
What we call God, or Allah, or the Universe, or whatever spiritual name religion gives it.
How can I be so sure of this?
Because I've spoken to it.
And it has spoken to me.
This game was created to replace the government school system on Tygon.
Children are given credits to purchase what they need in the game.
You live your life as best you can and, when you die, you return to your real body taking the lessons you learned and the memories of the experiences you had.
Many return to live multiple lifetimes, many do not.
You have no memory of the real world, or at least you're not supposed to.
His goal is to retire from the game as the 1 player.
All of Tygon will be watching to see if he succeeds.
Alexandra failed miserably a year ago when she last https://eronline.ru/book/free-book-of-ra-slots.html The Game and has been sent to one of the best government schools read: Oliver Twist-like living conditions and working in sewers and other lovely places like them.
Because this year is the 30th anniversary of The Game, source free play is awarded to a random contestant.
One last note, the last time Zack and Alexandra were in The Game together, they tried hard to find each other in The Game and get married.
They failed, Alex's avatar died, and Zack could not find Alex when he came out of statis.
Brandon Strayne is Zack's patron.
He has a hidden agenda somewhere in this 30th anniversary edition of The Game, but it has not yet been revealed.
All commit the game book terry schott very know is that time is running out.
Review: The Writing: The writing is very good.
The editing is so-so.
A few well-spent dollars would have gone a long way toward making this good book excellent.
There were not a lot of typos, but there were enough to be occasionally distracting.
The author has an engaging writing style.
I cannot say that I could not put this book down, but it was not because I did not want to know what was happening.
It was because I had to give my brain a break.
Some of the stuff that happens is so mind-boggling, you just need to set the book aside for awhile and come back to it later.
Spiritual Content: Good and bad.
There are some things I really love about the spirituality in this book.
In The Game, Zack and Alex's avatars are big into spirituality.
This is obviously where the author himself leans and he makes that a decent sized theme of the book.
This turns me off slightly, but since it is not discussed at length, I am willing to look past it.
However, because of this, I would recommend that only mature Christians read this book.
Sexual Content: The sexual content was kept behind closed doors or was barely hinted at.
A reporter flirts and sends suggestive hints to Brandon with her eyes.
Personally, I think these could have been left out, but they weren't.
None of them are in detail and, as I said, only suggested, so it would not deter me from reading it again or recommending it to others.
Language: There are a few four letter words, mostly if not all dān.
Conclusion: I recommend this book to mature readers for three reasons: 1.
The main problem that I had with it is that the second book isn't out yet!
The ending is powerful and makes you desperately want more.
The author makes it very obvious that a sequel was planned.
After all, time is still running out.
I discovered this book this morning and finished it in 4 hours after barely stopping to take a breathe.
It's simply a really good read and right down my alley in terms of personal interests.
I stumbled upon this through Book Barbarian and their daily email that alerts me to a us visa slot booking hyderabad of free or cheap books going on Amazon.
The idea of The Game immediately appealed to me in the same way Ready Player One by Ernie Cline did.
It involves sending children into a virtual reality world to essentially lea I discovered this book this morning and finished it in 4 hours after barely stopping to take a breathe.
It's simply a really good read and right down my alley in terms of personal interests.
I stumbled upon this through Book Barbarian and their daily email that alerts me to a couple of free or cheap books going on Amazon.
The idea of The Game immediately appealed to me in the same way Ready Player One by Ernie Cline did.
It involves sending children into a virtual reality world to essentially lead practice lives so that they may be productive and wise human beings by the time they become adults.
It has replaced school as the primary source of education and rewards players with credits for achievements that they can spend to play again or purchase upgrades like luck.
The twist on this is that right now, you and I are playing through one of our practice lives and could at any time wake up in the real world.
Our story revolves around a boy called Zack who is weeks away from his 18th birthday and has the game book review terry schott for one more game.
He is a fantastic player who has just finished a game at the age of 76 virtual years, is ranked 2nd and has decided to invest every credit he has on making sure his last game is the best ever and will let him retire as number one.
I'm still getting my thoughts together but fuck me for a free book it was a real treat.
This may be the best philosophical work I have ever read.
Of course, on one level it the game book review terry schott simply a work of fiction.
On another level, I found myself consciously slowing down and taking breaks to ponder the abundance of ideas and wisdom.
As a 70 year old man, who has lead an unusually exciting and fulfilling life, I found this book contains a remarkable mixture of inspiring hope and disarming cynicism.
There is clearly a message here, and it is written well visit web page to be sure the A complete surprise.
This may be the best philosophical work I have ever read.
Of course, on one level it is simply a work of fiction.
On another level, I found myself consciously slowing down and taking breaks to ponder the abundance of ideas and wisdom.
As a 70 year old man, who has lead an unusually exciting and fulfilling life, I found this book contains a remarkable mixture of inspiring hope and disarming cynicism.
There is clearly a message here, and it is written well enough to be sure the message you receive, is your own.
Put this on your must read list.
I feel like the concept of this book had so much potential that just wasn't explored.
I didn't feel connected to any of the characters and I felt like every plot device raised more questions than it answered.
The amount the game book review terry schott things not explained to the reader was infuriating.
That's not to mention the poor grammar and spelling.
Sorry, just didn't feel it.
This a truly horrible book.
Let me explain it this way: have you ever seen a young kid at the beach?
A kid who tries to build a sand castle a little too close to the water?
So, they're working with over saturated wet sand and the waves are crashing in taking bits of the foundation little by little.
But they're just a kid so they just keep trying to pile more and more crap sand on top and things that don't make sense like twigs, rocks and maybe some seaweed because it's there.
You ever seen that?
This a truly horrible book.
Let me explain it this way: have you ever seen a young kid at the beach?
A kid who tries to build a sand castle a little too close to the water?
So, they're working with over saturated wet sand and the waves are crashing in taking bits of the foundation little by little.
But they're just a kid so they just keep trying to pile more and more crap sand on top and things that don't make sense like twigs, rocks and maybe some seaweed because it's there.
You ever seen that?
Well that's what this book is.
Synopsis: The world went to hell so a guy decided to build a matrix to teach kids about life I guess.
Kids 5-18 are placed inside the matrix for a few weeks to live out entire lifetimes.
They don't know they're in the matrix when they get put into the matrix.
When they come out they're supposed to have life skills and whatever career skills they learned while in this matrix game.
They also hope to earn credits during game play so that they can go back into the matrix otherwise they go to schools so terrible the author couldn't even describe them.
The world decided it was a great idea for kids as young as 5 years old to learn about and experience sexual and emotional relationships, the hardships of being an adult, suicide, murder, mental health issues, drugs and all the rest.
Adults can tune into kids matrix lives.
They pay to view them as if they're subscribing to a youtube channel.
They also get paid days off to watch major events in these kids lives.
The author makes a point of telling you that the matrix world is better than the real world which is why people over 18 can't play.
Because jobs I guess.
You earn credits by getting lots of subscribers and also by affecting other users in the matrix.
So Jesus would earn more credits than a hermit.
Unless the hermit's life was crazy interesting and they got a lot of subscribers.
A players life cannot be DVR'ed, recorded, rewound or paused so you have to watch it "real-time".
A lifetime lasts between 6-8 weeks.
A decade is approximately 10 days.
You can do the math but watching anything at that speed is ludicrous.
Especially if you're subscribed to multiple people and can't rewind the feed ever.
To combat this they made players talk to themselves in their heads in order to be able to understand better but even that is sped up so I'm sure it's like listening to The Chimpunks at 1000x times their usual speed.
The writing is worse.
In the book women are just accessories and have no real personalities.
The male character we follow him when he leaves the house, when he visits his parents, when he buys a car, when he goes to lunch with friends.
The female character we only see through the lens of her affect on the male character.
We don't really see her outside the house.
We don't see her doing mundane adult chores.
We don't see her at a job.
How does the author get around this?
He just talks about her life in passing or she's in the presence of the male character and they do things together.
Everyone talks the same way whether they are 8 or 88.
We're supposed to fall in love with the main character because he's supposed to be charismatic and humble.
But he comes off as a pretentious dick.
It's hard to like someone who has no faults or worries in life.
He's rich, handsome, he has great parents, he has a beautiful wife and does not want for anything.
He feels the need to tell us this time and time again.
The author also occasionally forgets about some of his characters so they pop up once and you never hear about them again.
Or they pop up once at the beginning and then don't pop up until the very end.
Even then they only get a throw away line just so the author can remind the reader that "Hey, I totally remembered this character I swear.
And stuff about "angels" and "demons" but it's the matrix so.
And it gets explained but it's dumb so it doesn't really explain much.
Then there's stuff about an in game weapon that also makes no sense but you know it's cool because reasons.
I could go on and on and on about the issues I had with this book but I'll let you get on with your day and read literally anything else.
How about the back of the cereal box.
I really enjoyed Schott's The Game.
He does a great job coelascing the the two worlds in the story together and coming up with reasons for the everyday to the unusual in our world.
Just be aware it ends with a major cliffhanger.
Imagine that we're living on Earth right now, but we're just computer generated avatars controlled by players in another reality.
Free ebooks are usually a hit or miss, so I'm typically weary when I start reading one.
This was possibly the best free ebook I've ever read!
It's got me feeling some type of way.
I really cannot explain how philosophical this book really was.
I'm sure that sounds goofy as fuck, but there are things in the book that honestly make you think.
No, th Imagine that we're living on Earth right now, but we're just computer generated avatars controlled by players in another reality.
Free ebooks are usually a hit or miss, so I'm typically weary when I start reading one.
This was possibly the best free ebook I've ever read!
It's got me feeling some type of way.
I really cannot explain how philosophical this book really was.
I'm sure that sounds goofy as fuck, but there are things in the book that honestly make you think.
No, the writing wasn't extraordinary but the author definitely knew how to keep me on the edge of my seat.
I did not want to put this book down and I've never been more excited to purchase the rest of a series.
The plot and pacing were great.
It does end of some-what of a cliffhanger, but not really.
I'm definitely itching to finish the series.
I forgot to highlight more quotes; however, these are two of my favorite ones that I ran across that really hit home for me.
Smile and tuck it away in your memory to be looked at whenever needed.
When you encounter the bad, don't live in the moment.
Let it pass as quickly as it can, don't focus on it, and whatever you do, don't grab onto it and tuck it away in your memory.
The end of the book before the last chapter made me actually say out loud, "But t So I guess I got the edited version, because I didn't see the same sort of grammar twitchiness that others did, and I'm a pretty huge stickler for that stuff.
The end of the book before the last chapter made me actually say out loud, "But that's not supposed to happen!
I really liked the characters.
The pacing was a little weird for me to adjust to and there were some parts of it I had to go back and re-read to make sure I was understanding it properly, but wow.
I am looking forward to the next installments.
I loved this book.
Not only is it an amazing science fiction story, it adds in "glimpses of the past" since it takes place in two worlds.
When you are born into the virtual reality world, your conscience sits on a table in the real world, Tygon.
Earth is nothing more than a simulation.
Trew Radfield, played by soon to be - or not - Zack Strayne, grows up in a world with powers, people, and a plan to be the best played there ever was.
Are you ready to play The Game?
I thoroughly enjoyed my time reading The Game.
As I read, I found myself hooked and unable to put the book down.
The plot idea was very interesting and surprisingly philosophical; however I felt that Schott didn't develop his ideas to their full potential.
I would still highly recommend The Game to anyone looking for an entertaining read, similar to that of novels like Ender's Game and The Hunger Games.
This was a very appealing story, full of twists and turns and very fun especially towards the end.
My original audiobook review and many others can be found at.
Not by the synopsis alone.
I preordered The Game.
From an unknown to me author.
With the backing of one of my go-to narrators and a publisher, that does a really good job of picking up extraordinary titles.
The summary pulls at the questions at the back of my mind.
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
What is the point of life?
Well, what if the point of life was to do your best at it.
All the while scoring My original audiobook review and many others can be found at.
Not by the synopsis alone.
I preordered The Game.
From an unknown to me author.
With the backing of one of my go-to narrators and a publisher, that does a really good job of picking up extraordinary titles.
The summary pulls at the questions at the back of my mind.
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
What is the point of life?
Well, what if the point of life was to do your best at it.
All the while scoring points in the game called life.
That is exactly where Zach, the protagonist, finds himself.
Albeit with a twist.
Tygon is a world very similar to Earth.
Pretty much everything is very similar, technology, corporations, and the media rule.
However, the one major difference is this.
Think of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, similar to World of Warcraft.
The world where the game takes place is a different planet called Earth.
Everyone there is playing the game.
If you get more fans and followers, when you come out of The Game you are rewarded with fame and fortune.
But only if you have a fan base and can place in the ranking of all of the other players.
We get to follow his game life, from birth to his 40th birthday.
Because in the game 1 day on Tygon is 1 year on Earth.
This happens pretty quickly.
I do not want to give too much away here, so let me say this.
What if while in The Game you found a book that you wrote in your last game, and have no memory of writing, explaining that life is just a game.
Along with that, what if you started to tell people this and they believed you?
Yet so simple as well.
Written in a way that makes sense to me.
I was engrossed from beginning to end.
Not wanting to stop listening for anything.
I had to know what happened next.
WARING: There is a cliffhanger ending.
Followed with a brief sample of the next book in the series that cannot be published soon enough.
Luke Daniels delivered this performance just as soundly as most of the rest that I have heard.
That all seem to always fit the story perfectly.
For younger to older males.
Female voices that are more believable than most speak.
Full of strategic pauses and other unspoken traits of a truly skilled narrator.
Audiobook was purchased for review by ABR.
The Game takes on the good old "what if life on Earth as we know it were just a simulation" premise, in this version one where children from the age of 5 on live entire lifetimes in a virtual reality to allow them to gain valuable skills and life experience they can then apply to their real lifes when they grow up.
The protagonist is Zack, a highly ranked player about to embark on his last game run and determined to finish in the top spot.
In the outside world, a team has assembled to support hi The Game takes on check this out good old "what if life on Earth as we know it were just a simulation" premise, in this version one where children from the age of 5 on live entire lifetimes in a virtual reality to allow them to gain valuable skills and life experience they can then apply to their real lifes when they grow up.
The protagonist is Zack, a highly ranked player about to embark on his last game run and determined to finish in the top spot.
In the outside world, a team has assembled to support him, but it turns out that there's a lot more going on than initially meets the eye.
Interesting premise with many promising sounding aspects, but the worldbuilding lacks development and somehow it all just ends up being one big, confusing, half-baked mess in which only about half of what we're told in massive info-dumps makes sense.
The writing is all telling, no showing, and the characters are shallow and not particularly likable.
By the time the whole thing turned into some exceedingly weird take on religion, I had long stopped caring about what was going on.
When I began reading The Game by Terry Schott, I had no expectations.
It was a free book that I found on iBooks and the description sounded good so I decided to read it.
I enjoy reading books that have a fast pace and this was one of those books.
The plot was very complex and kept me reading.
I rated this The Game four stars because of all these reasons, and others, including a great setting and the incredible main idea of the book.
What I did not enjoy about this book was the characters.
They w When I began reading The Game by Terry Schott, I had no expectations.
It was a free book that I found on iBooks and the description sounded good so I decided to read it.
I enjoy reading books that have a fast pace and this was one of those books.
The plot was very complex and kept me reading.
I rated this The Game four stars because of all these reasons, and others, including a great setting and the incredible main idea of the book.
What I did not enjoy about this book was the characters.
They were not introduced well, and all of them were quite boring, but the great plot made up for where the characterization lacked.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to everyone who has an interest science fiction, and anyone in high school and under because it is a simple book to read with an interesting storyline.
I do not think an adult would like this due to the simplicity of the language.
The Game by Terry Schott is an amazing book, and the best part about it was that it is free.
I thoroughly enjoyed "The Game" written by Terry Schott.
This book is a science-fiction novel that takes place in the future.
Reading this book allowed me to escape my life and enter into Zach's life and his experiences with the game.
I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating because of its unique plot and the fact that the story was taking place in a very interesting futuristic society.
I also enjoyed reading about adventures of all the different characters inside of the game.
Terry Schott did I thoroughly enjoyed "The Game" written by Terry Schott.
This book is a science-fiction novel that takes place in the future.
Reading this book allowed me to escape my life and enter into Zach's life and his experiences with the game.
I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating because of its unique plot and the fact that the story was taking place in a very interesting futuristic society.
I also enjoyed reading about adventures of all the different characters inside of the game.
Terry Schott did a wonderful job of characterizing his characters.
I would recommend this book mainly to young adults because it would be easier to relate to the characters.
The Game is easily one of the more interesting books I've recently read.
Although I haven't finished it yet, the plot is gripping and easy to understand, while not too simplistic.
Terry Schott did an excellent job of switching between perspectives to keep things fresh and making the readers wonder what will happen to Zack and Alex.
I would recommend this book to anyone to like adventure or science fiction.
I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did, as it had a nice, communal development story uploaded to Facebook in parts for friends and had themes I like exploring.
In the end, I finished it just to squeeze out the ideas that the author had, as there were so many it ended up incoherent with little focus.
The Game is a pre-adult virtual reality life system designed to educate the children of Tygon.
The Game is E.
The idea is that the children come out of this system having lived full I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did, as it had a nice, communal development story uploaded to Facebook in parts the game book review terry schott friends and had themes I like exploring.
In the end, I finished it just to squeeze out the ideas that the author had, as there were so many it ended up incoherent with little focus.
The Game is a pre-adult virtual reality life system designed to educate the children of Tygon.
The Game is E.
The idea is that the children come out of this system having lived full lives, and can then take that experience into their real life.
Logical inconsistency 2: kids that fail end up in labour camps.
Where are the parents?
Who are the parents?
The Game has been around for 30 years ā where is the supposed societal enlightenment that would come about from the communal wisdom of a generation?
It makes no sense.
Despite massive holes such as these, there were some good ideas, such as the explanations for Angels and Demons, and religion as a whole.
The idea that the Pyramids and other ancient structures were BETA testers.
It had some innovation, but all this was just not enough to paper the cracks.
I am racking my brain trying to figure out how to rate this book.
I listened to the Audible version narrated by Luke Daniels which isn't an option in the book editions in GR.
It's an interesting plot.
It's premise is that Earth is a virtual reality game created to teach kids about life.
It replaces regular schools.
On Earth we are all avatars for the kids playing the game while they are in suspended animation for weeks at a time while taking their tur I am racking my brain trying to figure out how to rate this book.
I listened to the Audible version narrated by Luke Daniels which isn't an option in the book editions in GR.
It's an interesting plot.
It's premise is that Earth is a virtual reality game created to teach kids about life.
It replaces regular schools.
On Earth we are all avatars for the kids playing the game while they are in suspended animation for weeks at a time while taking their turn playing.
A week in their real life is about a decade in the Earth game so they get to experience an entire lifetime each time they play.
They win and lose game credits while playing which turn into real life wealth or lack of when they become too old to play anymore.
Their entire society has become financially dependent on this VR game.
It really is my kind of crazy.
Still, overall, the plot is an easy 4 stars.
My main hangup is in the delivery of the plot.
It is written in 3rd person POV, which tends to distance me from the characters.
On top of that, we are dealing with characters living on two different worlds so we get shuffled back and forth between the two.
Then there are the 'snippets' that happen quite often to give us information or clarify the action for us.
They are blurbs from books, newscast recordings, historical records, etc.
As necessary as they were to explain and move the plot along, they honestly wore me out.
I always prefer being in the middle of the action as opposed to being informed of it.
I can't give the writing anything more than a generous 3 stars.
I can average all this out to a four star, but it would only apply to the Audible version which is not even listed in GR.
So, I've decided to leave the rating blank and let you make up your own mind.
The Game is a weird offspring of the book The Hunger Games and the movie The Truman Show.
The duration and fruitfulness of your life gives you points that put you on places on the ranking in the real world.
Zack, in his The Game is a weird offspring of the book The Hunger Games and the movie The Truman Show.
The duration and fruitfulness of your life gives you points that put you on places on the ranking in the real world.
Zack, in his passed life, went up a lot of rankings and ended up rank two.
But in his next run of the game, things get a little more interesting.
The entire story was very slow but all around amusing.
The characters were well thought out and each one had their own sense of voice.
The romance in the story was enticing and kept you on the edge, but the story was very predictable and ended exactly how you would think.
The originality was not there and just felt like a combination of a ton of other stories.
In other words, it was the most basic sci-fi story you could think of.
It appeals to almost every sci-fi reader https://eronline.ru/book/game-plan-book.html it has every aspect of a sci-fi book, which makes the book very unoriginal.
I enjoyed my time reading The Game.
I found myself hooked and It was a quick read.
The plot idea was very interesting and surprisingly philosophical; however I felt that Schott didn't develop his ideas to their full potential.
I would still recommend The Game to sci-fi Lovers.
Also the originality was not there and just felt like a combination of a ton of other stories.
I did love the ending and him very interested in reading the next book!
This is one of my favorite book series ever!!!!
What a concept to think of what it would be like if we could live out an entire lifetime through Virtual Reality.
The series just keeps getting better so keep reading!
Great concept and story.
Held my attention all the way through.
Only the game book review terry schott I have is the amount of typos and story edits that made it a bit sloppy.
I think if it had been read through one more time they'd have found them all.
Still, I'd highly recommend it.
Now I must find the second in the series!
The Game The Game is Life 1 of 9 by and Terry Schott |GameLit| He didn't know he was playing. Zack was just living his life. It was really a.
Enjoy!
The best players are celebrities, adored and worshiped by countless fans.
Zack is a superstar among players.
His final play may change the world, forever.
Not it does not.
At no point does the author show anything.
All of it is told.
You get to 85% through the book and the author is still telling No.
Not it does not.
At no point does the author show anything.
All of it is told.
You get to 85% through the book and the author is still telling exposition.
Oh MY god, get an editor.
It sounds like it could be a good concept, but I can't deal with the comma splices, run on sentences, spelling errors, and poor grammar enough to get through it.
Glad I got it for free.
Hazards of being an English major - I simply can't cope with poor grammar, no matter the content.
That being s Oh MY god, get an editor.
It sounds like it could be a good concept, but I can't deal with the comma splices, run on sentences, spelling errors, and poor grammar enough to get through it.
Glad I got the book of treasures free download for free.
Hazards of being an English major - I simply can't cope with poor grammar, no matter the content.
That being said, his editor did a great job, and I actually love the book now that I've read the edited version.
Great concept, gripping plot, bit of a disappointing end but I know it's the set-up for a sequel so I'll let it slide.
Audiobook Internal Dialogue Do I make fun of the fact that this is the 2nd audiobook I have listened to that has a 5 star rating on the cover from Amazon Customer?
Do I wonder how good a book originally published in 2012 and now receiving the 2016 luxury Luke Daniels Audiobook treatment could be if the best review in 4 years came from Amazon Customer?
Do I wonder how good a book originally published in 2012 and now receiving the 2016 luxury Luke Daniels Audiobook treatment could be if the best review in 4 years came from Amazon Customer?
The idea that our entire universe is a complex computer simulation has been around for some time.
If we scoff at simulation theory we are denying that humanity will develop the capability to run such complex simulations in the future, which is equally silly.
Similarly all of the problems in plotting a book, such as coincidences and contrivances disappear when our book is set in a simulation!
Good scores or performance in the game will earn credits.
After the age of 14 players are expected to pay for any further incarnations into the game with the credits they have earned as well as to buy upgrades such as luck, health, focus and the like to improve their chances of high achievement.
Players over 14 who have no credits to re-enter the game end up as the dropouts of their society and will be trained as factory workers.
Retirement is mandatory at age 21 and credits earned between 14 and 21 can be used in the real world instead of retrying an incarnation on Earth for more.
Businesses are required to supply leave to allow viewers to tune in to their favourite players games.
There were a few rough edges to the story from first time author Terry Schott.
When a character is asked a question they often answer then go on an extended exposition dump.
There were a few story elements that jarred, such as when for the 30th anniversary of the game a billion souls from the real world took an extra shot at incarnating.
The scoring of the game was never really properly explained, even when at the 90% mark some sort of attempt was made.
I enjoyed the way Schott tied in phenomena like DĆ©jĆ vu, synchronicities and the game book review terry schott technology into his game theory.
Less successful was the attempt to tie in the Mayan doomsday 2012 prophecy remember that?
It seems like there is the potential for a lot of big revelations and I was hoping for at least one at the end of the book.
LD is great and was the deciding factor for me to check this book out.
So despite some rough edges I devoured this thing in a day and a half and will no doubt purchase the next book if it comes out as a LD-narrated Audiobook.
I can just imagine the author sitting down with buddies at a bar just before the book was written: "I have this idea for a book," he began, "it's a little like Matrix and the Hunger Games.
I found this book for the game book review terry schott for the Nook on Barnes and Noble and I took a shot.
I am glad I did.
I have a major book hangover from reading this one!
The plot is fantastic and is paced very well.
It had me from the very begining and I could not put it down.
I read it in half a day.
They do not have the second, third or fourth on Barnes and Noble so I will be ordering them from Amazon because I mu I found this book for free for the Nook on Barnes and Noble and I took a shot.
I am glad I did.
I have a major book hangover from reading this one!
The plot is fantastic and is paced hunger games book 2 online free well.
It had me from the very begining and I could not put it down.
I read it in half a day.
They do not have the second, third or fourth on Barnes and Noble so I will be ordering them from Amazon because I must know what happens.
The story is full of hope, sadness, triumph and loss.
I found myself caring for all the main characters involved and hating some that I am still not sure where they fall on the good or evil scale.
This was one of the best books I have gotten for free with no knowledge of it to begin with.
I like the Matrix type story and the concept.
However, the book felt thrown together and lacking in the details.
I couldn't get past that the author never addressed how the people on Trew's planet were able to experience the faster time from the computer game of "Earth" in their real time.
And the time lapse kept changing throughout the book.
Some instances the time was 1:1, but other cases a few hours meant years in the game.
There was no consistency.
It estimated 5 to 6 weeks for 70 years in " I like the Matrix type story and the concept.
However, the book felt thrown together and lacking in the details.
I couldn't get past that the author never addressed how the people on Trew's planet were able to experience the faster time from the computer game of "Earth" in their real time.
And the time lapse kept changing throughout the book.
Some instances the time was 1:1, but other cases a few hours meant years in the game.
There was no consistency.
It estimated 5 to 6 weeks for 70 years in "Earth," but when Trew was 40 they gave the same time frame for him to live to 70.
In order for that to happen, every day on Trew's planet meant 2 years on "Earth.
The characters were poorly developed and the "game" dynamics took over any interest in the characters.
The plot also had a ton of holes.
It didn't explain why kids, who had parents, were sent to the educational camps that were basically slave labor, instead of home to their parents.
And then how those kids lead productive lives after their forced slavery.
At no point did the author show what Trew's planet even looked like or how it functioned outside of "Earth.
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Overall, it was an interesting concept that could have been handled a lot better.
The author wasn't able to bring it together in an developed way.
You will not be able to sleep unless you can turn off the millions of questions that come to mind when you finish reading.
This is the first book in a series and it definitely needs a sequel.
The problem is, it isn't published yet!
That being said, on to the review.
Somewhere 'out' there, our real bodies are plugged into a very real virtual reality simulation.
You will not be able to sleep unless you can turn off the millions of questions that come to mind when you finish reading.
This is the first book in a series and it definitely needs a sequel.
The problem is, it isn't published yet!
That being said, on to the review.
Somewhere 'out' there, our real bodies are plugged into a very real virtual reality simulation.
Earth isn't real, but it's important to those running the game.
What we call God, or Allah, or the Universe, or whatever spiritual name religion gives it.
How can I be so sure of this?
Because I've spoken to it.
And it has spoken to me.
This game was created to replace the government school system on Tygon.
Children are given credits to purchase what they need in the game.
You live your life as best you can and, when you die, you return to your real body taking the lessons you learned and the memories of the experiences you had.
Many return to live multiple lifetimes, many do not.
You have no memory of the real world, or at least you're not supposed to.
His goal is to retire from the game as the 1 player.
All of Tygon will be watching to see if he succeeds.
Alexandra failed miserably a year ago when she last entered The Game and has online games book of ra sent to one of the best government schools read: Oliver Twist-like living conditions and working in sewers and other lovely places like them.
Because this year is the 30th anniversary of The Game, a free play is awarded to a random contestant.
One last note, the last time Zack and Alexandra were in The Game together, they tried hard to find each other in The Game and get married.
They failed, Alex's avatar died, and Zack could not find Alex when he came out of statis.
Brandon Strayne is Zack's patron.
He has a hidden agenda somewhere in this 30th anniversary plan book game of The Game, but it has not yet been revealed.
All we know is that time is running out.
Review: The Writing: The writing is very good.
The editing is so-so.
A few well-spent dollars would have gone a long way toward making this good book excellent.
There were not a lot of typos, but there were enough to be occasionally distracting.
The author has an engaging writing style.
I cannot say that I could not put this book down, but it was not because I did not want to know what was happening.
It was because I had to give my brain a break.
Some of the stuff that happens is so mind-boggling, you just need to set the book aside for awhile and come back to it later.
Spiritual Content: Good and bad.
There are some things I really love about the spirituality in this book.
In The Game, Zack and Alex's avatars are big into spirituality.
This is obviously where the author himself leans and he makes that a decent sized theme of the book.
This turns me off slightly, but since it is not discussed at length, I am willing to look past it.
However, because of this, I would recommend that only mature Christians read this book.
Sexual Content: The sexual content was kept behind closed doors or was barely hinted at.
A reporter flirts and sends suggestive hints to Brandon with her eyes.
Personally, I think these could have been left out, but they weren't.
None of them are in detail and, as I said, only suggested, so it would not deter me from reading it again or recommending the game book review terry schott to others.
Language: There are a few four letter words, mostly if not all dān.
Conclusion: I recommend this book to mature readers for three reasons: 1.
The main problem that I had with it is that the second book isn't out yet!
The ending is powerful and makes you desperately want more.
The author makes it very obvious that a sequel was planned.
After all, time is still running out.
I discovered this book this morning and finished it in 4 hours after barely stopping to take a breathe.
It's simply a really good read and right down my alley in terms of personal interests.
I stumbled upon this through Book Barbarian and their daily email that alerts me to a couple of free or cheap books going on Amazon.
The idea of The Game immediately appealed to me in the same way Ready Player One by Ernie Cline did.
It involves sending children into a virtual reality world to essentially lea I discovered this book this morning and finished it in 4 hours after barely stopping to take a breathe.
It's simply a really good read and right down my alley in terms of personal interests.
I stumbled upon this through Book Barbarian and their daily email that alerts me to a couple of free or cheap books going on Amazon.
The idea of The Game immediately appealed to me in the same way Ready Player One by Ernie Cline did.
It involves sending children into a virtual reality world to essentially lead practice lives so that they may be productive and wise human beings by the time they become adults.
It has replaced school as the primary source of education and rewards players with credits for achievements that they can spend to play again or purchase asda online book a slot like luck.
The twist on this is that right now, you and I are playing through one of our practice lives and could at any time wake up in the real world.
Our story revolves around a boy called Zack who is weeks away from his 18th birthday and has time for one more game.
He is a fantastic player who has just finished a game at the age of 76 virtual years, is ranked 2nd and has decided to invest every credit he has on making sure his last game is the best ever and will let him see more as number one.
I'm still getting my thoughts together but fuck me for a free book it was a real treat.
This may be the best philosophical work I have ever read.
Of course, on one level it is simply a work of fiction.
On another level, I found myself consciously slowing down and taking breaks to ponder the abundance of ideas and wisdom.
As a 70 year old man, who has lead an unusually exciting and fulfilling life, I found this book contains a remarkable mixture of inspiring hope and disarming cynicism.
There is clearly a message here, and it is written well enough to be sure the A complete surprise.
This may be the best philosophical work I have ever read.
Of course, on one level it is simply a work of fiction.
On another level, I found myself consciously slowing down and taking breaks to ponder the abundance of ideas and wisdom.
As a 70 year old man, who has lead an unusually exciting and fulfilling life, I found this book contains a remarkable mixture of inspiring hope and disarming cynicism.
There is the game book review terry schott a message here, and it is written well enough to be sure the message you receive, is your own.
Put this on your must read list.
I feel like the concept of this book had so much potential that just wasn't explored.
I didn't feel connected to any of the characters and I felt like every plot device raised more questions than it answered.
The amount of things not explained to the reader was infuriating.
That's not to mention the poor grammar and spelling.
Sorry, just didn't feel it.
This a truly horrible book.
Let me explain it this way: have you ever seen a young kid at the beach?
A kid who tries to build a sand castle a little too close to the water?
So, they're working with over saturated wet sand and the waves are crashing in taking bits of the foundation little by little.
But they're just a kid so they just keep trying to pile more and more crap sand on top and things that don't make sense like twigs, rocks and maybe some seaweed because it's there.
You ever seen that?
This a truly horrible book.
Let me explain it this way: have you ever seen a young kid at the beach?
A kid who tries to build a sand castle a little too close to the water?
So, they're working with over saturated wet sand and the waves are crashing in taking bits of the foundation little by little.
But they're just a kid so they just keep trying to pile more and more crap sand on top and things that don't make sense like twigs, rocks and maybe some seaweed because it's there.
You ever seen that?
Well that's what this book is.
Synopsis: The world went to hell so a guy decided to build a matrix to teach kids about life I guess.
Kids 5-18 are placed inside the matrix for a few weeks to live out entire lifetimes.
They don't know they're in the matrix when they get put into the matrix.
When they come out they're supposed to have life skills and whatever career skills they learned while in this matrix game.
They also hope to earn credits during game play so that they can go back into the matrix otherwise they go to schools so terrible the author couldn't even describe them.
The world decided it was a great idea for kids as young as 5 years old to learn about and experience sexual and emotional relationships, the hardships of being an adult, suicide, murder, mental health issues, drugs and all the rest.
Adults can tune into kids matrix lives.
They pay to view them as if they're subscribing to a youtube channel.
They also get paid days off to watch major events in these kids lives.
The author makes a point of telling you that the matrix world is better than the real the game book review terry schott which is why people over 18 can't play.
Because jobs I guess.
You earn credits by getting lots of subscribers and also by affecting other users in the matrix.
So Jesus would earn more credits than a hermit.
Unless the hermit's life was crazy interesting and they got a lot of subscribers.
A players life cannot be DVR'ed, recorded, rewound or paused so you have to watch it "real-time".
A lifetime lasts between 6-8 weeks.
A decade is approximately 10 days.
You can do the math but watching anything at that speed is ludicrous.
Especially if you're subscribed to multiple people and can't rewind the feed ever.
To combat this they made players talk to themselves in their heads in order to be able to understand better but even that is sped up so I'm sure it's like listening to The Chimpunks at 1000x times their usual speed.
The writing is worse.
In the book women are just accessories and have no real personalities.
The male character we follow him when he leaves the house, when he visits his parents, when he buys a car, when he goes to lunch with friends.
The female character we only see through the lens of her affect on the male character.
We don't really see her outside the house.
We don't see her doing mundane adult chores.
We don't see her at a job.
How does the author get around this?
He just talks about her life in passing or she's in the presence of the male character and they do things together.
Everyone talks the same way whether they are 8 or 88.
We're supposed to fall in love with the main character because he's supposed to be charismatic and humble.
But he comes off as a pretentious dick.
It's hard to like someone who has no faults or worries in life.
He's rich, handsome, he has great parents, he has a beautiful wife and does not want for anything.
He feels the need to tell us this time and time again.
The author also occasionally forgets about some of his characters so they pop up once and you never hear about them again.
Or they pop up once at the beginning and then don't pop up until the very end.
Even then they only get a throw away line just so the author can remind the reader that "Hey, I totally remembered this character I swear.
And stuff about "angels" and "demons" but it's the matrix so.
And it gets explained but it's dumb so it doesn't really explain much.
Then there's stuff about an in game weapon that also makes no sense but you know it's cool because reasons.
I could go on and on and on about the issues I had with this book but I'll let you get on with your day and read literally anything else.
How about the back of the cereal box.
I really enjoyed Schott's The Game.
He does a great job coelascing the the two worlds in the story together and coming up with reasons for the everyday to the unusual in our world.
Just be aware it ends with a major cliffhanger.
Imagine that we're living on Earth right now, but we're just computer generated avatars controlled by players in another reality.
Free ebooks are usually a hit or miss, so I'm typically weary when I start reading one.
This was possibly the best free ebook I've ever read!
It's got me feeling some type of way.
I really cannot explain how philosophical this book really was.
I'm sure that sounds goofy as fuck, but there are things in the book that honestly make you think.
No, th Imagine that we're living on Earth right now, but we're just computer generated avatars controlled by players in another reality.
Free ebooks are usually a hit or miss, so I'm typically weary when I start reading one.
This was possibly the best free ebook I've ever read!
It's got me feeling some type of way.
I really cannot explain how philosophical this book really was.
I'm sure that sounds goofy as fuck, but there are things in the book that honestly make you think.
No, the writing wasn't extraordinary but the author definitely knew how to keep me on the edge of my seat.
I did not want to put this book down and I've never been more excited to purchase the rest of a series.
The plot and pacing were great.
It does end of some-what of a cliffhanger, but not really.
I'm definitely itching to finish the series.
I forgot to highlight more quotes; however, these are two of my favorite ones that I ran across that really hit home for me.
Smile and tuck it away in your memory to be looked at whenever needed.
When you encounter the bad, don't live in the moment.
Let it pass as quickly as it can, don't focus on it, and whatever you do, don't grab onto it and tuck it away in your memory.
The end of the book before the last chapter made me actually say out loud, "But t So I guess I got the edited version, because I didn't see the same sort of grammar twitchiness that others did, and I'm a pretty huge stickler for that stuff.
The end of the book before the last chapter made me actually say out loud, "But that's not supposed to happen!
I really liked the characters.
The pacing was a little weird for me to adjust to and there were some parts of it I had to go back and re-read to make sure I was understanding it properly, but wow.
I am looking forward to the next installments.
I loved this book.
Not only is it an amazing science fiction story, it adds in "glimpses of the past" since it takes place in two worlds.
When you are born into the virtual reality world, your conscience sits on a table in the real world, Tygon.
Earth is nothing more https://eronline.ru/book/the-game-book-terry-schott.html a simulation.
Trew Radfield, played by soon to be - or not - Zack Strayne, grows up in a world with powers, people, and a plan to be the best played there ever was.
Are you ready to play The Game?
I thoroughly enjoyed my time reading The Game.
As I read, I found myself hooked and unable to put the book down.
The plot idea was very interesting and surprisingly philosophical; however I felt that Schott didn't develop his ideas to their full potential.
I would still highly recommend The Game to anyone looking for an entertaining read, similar to that of novels like Ender's Game and The Hunger Games.
This was a very appealing story, full of twists and turns and very fun especially towards the end.
My original audiobook review and many others can be found at.
Not by the synopsis alone.
I preordered The Game.
From an unknown to me author.
With the backing of one of my go-to narrators and a publisher, that does a really good job of picking up extraordinary titles.
The summary pulls at the questions at the back of my mind.
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
What is the point of life?
Well, what if the point of life was to do your best at it.
All the while scoring My original audiobook review and many others can be found at.
Not by the synopsis alone.
I preordered The Game.
From an unknown to me author.
With the backing of one of my go-to narrators and a publisher, that does a really good job of picking up extraordinary titles.
The summary pulls at the questions at the back of my mind.
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
What is the point of life?
Well, what click at this page the point of life was to do your best at it.
All the while scoring points in the game called life.
That is exactly where Zach, the protagonist, finds himself.
Albeit with a twist.
Tygon is a world very similar to Earth.
Pretty much everything is very similar, technology, corporations, and the media rule.
However, the one major difference is this.
Think of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, similar to World of Warcraft.
The world where the game takes place is a different planet called Earth.
Everyone there is playing the game.
If you get more fans and followers, when you come out of The Game you are rewarded with fame and fortune.
But only if you have a fan base and can place in the ranking of all of the other players.
We get to follow his game life, from birth to his 40th birthday.
Because in the game 1 day on Tygon is 1 year on Earth.
This happens pretty quickly.
I do not want to give too much away here, so let me say this.
What if while in The Game you found a book that you wrote in your last game, and have no memory of writing, explaining that life is just a game.
Along with that, what if you started to tell people this and they believed you?
Yet so simple as well.
Written in a way that makes sense to me.
I was engrossed from beginning to end.
Not wanting to stop listening for anything.
I had to know what happened next.
WARING: There is a cliffhanger ending.
Followed with a brief sample of the next book in the series that cannot be published soon enough.
Luke Daniels delivered this performance just as soundly as most of the rest that I have heard.
That all seem to always fit the story perfectly.
For younger to older males.
Female voices that are more believable than most speak.
Full of strategic pauses and other unspoken traits of a truly skilled narrator.
Audiobook was purchased for review by ABR.
The Game takes on the good old "what if life on Earth as we know it were just a simulation" premise, in this version one where children from the age of 5 on live entire lifetimes in a virtual reality to allow them to gain valuable skills and life experience they can then apply to their real lifes when they grow up.
The protagonist is Zack, a highly ranked player about to embark on his last game run and determined to finish in the top spot.
In the outside world, a team has assembled to support hi The Game takes on the good old "what if life on Earth as we know it were just a simulation" premise, in this version one where children from the age of 5 on live entire lifetimes in a virtual reality to allow them to gain valuable skills and life experience they can then apply to their real lifes when they grow up.
The protagonist is Zack, a highly ranked player about to embark on his last game run and determined to finish in the top spot.
In the outside world, a team has assembled to support him, but it turns out that there's a lot more going on than initially meets the eye.
Interesting premise with many promising sounding aspects, but the worldbuilding lacks development and somehow it all just ends up being one big, confusing, half-baked mess in which only about half of what we're told in massive info-dumps makes sense.
The writing is all telling, no showing, and the characters are shallow and not particularly likable.
By the time the whole thing turned into some exceedingly weird take on religion, I had long stopped caring about what was going on.
When I began reading The Game by Terry Schott, I had no expectations.
It was a free book that I found on iBooks and the description sounded good so I decided to read it.
I enjoy reading books that have a fast pace and this was one of those books.
The plot was very complex and kept me reading.
I rated this The Game four stars because of all these reasons, and others, including a great setting and the incredible main idea of the book.
What I did not enjoy about this book was the characters.
They w When I began reading The Game by Terry Schott, I had no expectations.
It was a free book that I found on iBooks and the description sounded good so I decided to read it.
I enjoy reading books that have a fast pace and this was one of those books.
The plot was very complex and kept me reading.
I rated this The Game four stars because of all these reasons, and others, including a great setting and the incredible main idea of the book.
What I did not enjoy about this book was the characters.
They were not introduced well, and all of them were quite boring, but the great plot made up for where the characterization lacked.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to everyone who has an interest science fiction, and anyone in high school and under because it is a simple book to read with an interesting storyline.
I do not think an adult would like this due to the simplicity of the language.
The Game by Terry Schott is an amazing book, and the best part about it was that it is free.
I thoroughly enjoyed "The Game" written by Terry Schott.
This book is a science-fiction novel that takes place in the future.
Reading this book allowed me to escape my life and enter into Zach's life and his experiences with the game.
I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating because of its unique plot and the fact that the story was taking place in a very interesting futuristic society.
I also enjoyed reading about adventures of all the different characters inside of the game.
Terry Schott did I thoroughly enjoyed "The Game" written by Terry Schott.
This book is a science-fiction novel that takes place in the future.
Reading this book allowed me to escape my life and enter into Zach's life and his experiences with the game.
I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating because of its unique plot and the fact that the story was taking place in a very interesting futuristic society.
I also enjoyed reading about adventures of all the different characters inside of the game.
Terry Schott did a wonderful job of characterizing his characters.
I would recommend this book mainly to young adults because it would be easier to relate to the characters.
The Game is easily one of the more interesting books I've recently read.
Although I haven't finished it yet, the plot is gripping and easy to understand, while not too simplistic.
Terry Schott did an excellent job of switching between perspectives to keep things fresh and making the readers wonder what will happen to Zack and Alex.
I would recommend this book to anyone to like adventure or science fiction.
I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did, as it had a nice, communal development story uploaded to Facebook in parts for friends and had themes I like exploring.
In the end, I finished it just to squeeze out the ideas that the author had, as there were so many it ended up incoherent with little focus.
The Game is a pre-adult virtual reality life system designed to educate the children of Tygon.
The Game is E.
The idea is that the children come out of this system having lived full I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did, as it had a nice, communal development story uploaded to Facebook in parts for friends and had themes I like exploring.
In the end, I finished it just to squeeze out the ideas that the author had, as there were so many it ended up incoherent with little focus.
The Game is a pre-adult virtual reality life system designed to educate the children of Tygon.
The Game is E.
The idea is that the children come out of this system having lived full lives, and can then take that experience into their real life.
Logical inconsistency 2: kids that fail end up in labour camps.
Where are the parents?
Who are the parents?
The Game has been around for 30 years ā where is the supposed societal enlightenment that would come about from the communal wisdom of a generation?
It makes no sense.
Despite massive holes such as these, there were some good ideas, such as the explanations for Angels and Demons, and religion as a whole.
The idea that the Pyramids and other ancient structures were BETA testers.
It had some innovation, but all this was just not enough to paper the cracks.
I am racking my brain trying to figure out how to rate this book.
free lord of the rings book listened to the Audible version narrated by Luke Daniels which isn't an option in the book editions in GR.
It's an interesting plot.
It's premise is that Earth is a virtual reality game created to teach kids about life.
It replaces regular schools.
On Earth we are all avatars for the kids playing the game while they are in suspended animation for weeks at a time while taking their tur I am racking my brain trying to figure out how to rate this book.
I listened to the Audible version narrated by Luke Daniels which isn't an option in the book editions in GR.
It's an interesting plot.
It's premise is that Earth is a virtual reality game created to teach kids about life.
It replaces regular schools.
On Earth we are all avatars for the kids playing the game while they are in suspended animation for weeks at a time while taking their turn playing.
A week in their real life is about a decade in the Earth game so they get to experience an entire lifetime each time they play.
They win and lose game credits while playing which turn into real life wealth or lack of when they become too old the game book review terry schott play anymore.
Their entire society has become financially dependent on this VR game.
It really is my kind of crazy.
Still, overall, the plot is an easy 4 stars.
My main hangup is in the delivery of the plot.
It is written in 3rd person POV, which tends to distance me from the characters.
On top of that, we are dealing with characters living on two different worlds so we get shuffled back and forth between the two.
Then there are the 'snippets' that happen quite often to give us information or clarify the action for us.
They are blurbs from books, newscast recordings, historical records, etc.
As necessary as they were to explain and move the plot along, they honestly wore me out.
I always prefer being in the middle of the action as opposed to being informed of it.
I can't give the writing anything more than a generous 3 stars.
I can average all this out to a four star, but it would only apply to the Audible version which is not even listed in GR.
So, I've decided to leave the rating blank and let you make up your own mind.
The Game is a weird offspring of the book The Hunger Games and the movie The Truman Show.
The duration and fruitfulness of your life gives you points that put you on places on the ranking in the real world.
Zack, in his The Game is a weird offspring of the book The Hunger Games and the movie The Truman Show.
The duration and fruitfulness of your life gives you points that put you on places on the ranking in the real world.
Zack, in his passed life, went up a lot of rankings and ended up rank two.
But in his next run of the game, things get a little more interesting.
highlander books free entire story was very slow but all around amusing.
The characters were well thought out and each one had their own sense of voice.
The romance in the story was enticing and kept you on the edge, but the story was very predictable and ended exactly how you would think.
The originality was not there and just felt like a combination of a ton of other stories.
In other words, it was the most basic sci-fi story you could think of.
It appeals to almost every sci-fi reader because it has every aspect of a sci-fi book, which makes the book very unoriginal.
I enjoyed my time reading The Game.
I found myself hooked and It was a quick read.
The plot idea was very interesting and surprisingly philosophical; however I felt that Schott didn't develop his ideas to their full potential.
I would still recommend The Game to sci-fi Lovers.
Also the originality was not there and just felt like a combination of a ton of other stories.
I did love the ending and him very interested in reading the next book!
This is one of my favorite book series ever!!!!
What a concept to think of what it would be like if we could live out an entire lifetime through Virtual Reality.
The series just keeps getting better so keep reading!
Great concept and story.
Held my attention all the way through.
Only complaint I have is the amount of typos and story edits that made it a bit sloppy.
I think if it had been read through one more time they'd have found them all.
Still, I'd highly recommend it.
Now I must find the second in the series!