Forum Overview :: Wall Street Kid :: That would rob her book of the real selling point.

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]Books like <A HREF="http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/nickelanddimed.htm">"Nickeled and Dimed"</A> or <A HREF="http://www.ajjacobs.com/books/yolb.asp">"The Year of Living Biblically"</A> usually have a simple premise and conclusion that can be succinctly summed up in the dust jacket: "poor people have it rough" and "it's impossible to follow the bible literally" respectively. The arguments and analysis are not what sells these books. The real selling point of these novels is the freakshow element as the authors immersing themselves into subcultures. The rich woman living in shitty hotels and subsisting on Fritos. The New-Yorker riding the subway with a terrorist beard and goofy tasseled bible clothes. How inconvenient this project proved as they attempted to pull it off! No doubt this videogame analysis is going to have the dramatic subtext of whether the world of videogames will consume her. Near the end she'll have a chapter where she realizes it's 3 in the morning and she's screaming obscenities at the Dark Souls disk spinning in her drive, then she goes outside and takes a deep breath of fresh air and realizes she needs to scale back the project before she loses herself in the grid. Finally, she'll quit with 75% of the games incomplete, reiterate the same conclusion she had planned out before the book started, but will add that her experience with certain games and the online community has left her with a more nuanced view of the gaming world. Ka-Ching![/quote]