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This Is Not a Game

By: Walter Jon Williams
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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Imagine a game with no boundaries - waiting in parking lot, sitting at your computer, walking down the street. You could be called at any moment - and you'd better be ready.

This is not a game.

This is a novel of greed, betrayal, and social networking.

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But well written and original, it kept my interest although I had to rewind a few times. Really liked Dagmar. Excellent reader.

Long, complex and at times confusing

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Jefferson Mays, one of the best, makes any book 100% better.. A++
15 words. word 15.

Good book. Awesome narrator!

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Ok Mays is awesome - and this book is really fantastic. Great stories, characters, well-written - very well paced and thrilling to end.

Came for Jeff Mays, LOVED story

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it was a good story with a fun pot and an interesting protagonist. the narrator did a great job giving voice to all the different characters.

if you like dystopian near future murder mysteries give this a listen

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This book is actually two books in one...the two parts are of course very interconnected, but I actually liked the first part a bit better than the rest. Williams has created a rather though and resourceful heroine, and the other characters are a little more one-dimensional, but that might be because you get to know the heroine very good in the first part.

The book starts out rather fast, and you will blaze through the first part in no time, but it slows down a bit and you get a little more mystery to all the action. You will however figure things out quite early. Unpredictable this book is not...

All in all quite a good tech thriller. The author has done his homework, and the book works rather well...recommended.

Recommended Thriller

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With the beginning of each trivial minutia "chapter" I debated whether to delete and move on. But hopeful it might get out of whatever the current rut, I pressed on.

I know now why this was a daily deal.

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What disappointed you about This Is Not a Game?

I just could not care about the story....it made no sense. I read a book called Hard Wired by this author and enjoyed it the most. I could not finish this one, made it about half way....which was a bummer...I almost fell asleep driving home from the airport. Had to pull the pin.

What was most disappointing about Walter Jon Williams’s story?

I just didn't give a damn about the character and the whole online gaming community approach to the story.

Did Jefferson Mays do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

The reading was well done and professional.

What character would you cut from This Is Not a Game?

Sigh....maybe the CEO guy that could not find a helicopter...

Any additional comments?

Why do so many people pass out 5 star reviews? People, on a five star scale....how the hell can this rate with the best novels in the world?

It's not really a good book either....

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fitting that one of the characters was a failed sci fi writer. I guess write what youbknow

DNF

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