In Real Life - Velha Estante

175 pages

English language

Published Oct. 14, 2014

ISBN:: 978-1-59643-658-9
Goodreads:: 20575446

(1 review)

From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing.

But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real …

From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing.

But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake.

2 editions

Literally Graphic reviewed In Real Life by Cory Doctorow

Review of 'In Real Life' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

A really promising premise combined with really great art and an author who clearly has no personal experience in this space. NOTHING about this story comes across naturally, and it's a real shame. Female identifying gamers already face enough persecution without having their plight exploited for money so poorly. Girl gamers deserve to have their stories told well by persons who actually understand what it is like to be a female gamer in the world today.

I am extremely disappointed with First Second, a publisher I have enjoyed a lot in the past.