Jesse

Great book, too bad it contains plagiarism and outdated stereotypes

Revisado: 12-14-20

Id like to start by saying this book is fantastic and 100% worth a credit. Hearing the behind the scenes decisions of the housers and how they grew up and their actual rockstar attitude was in a weird sense heartwarming and personable. Unfortunately, this book contains blatant plagiarism and some VERY annoying outdated stereotypes, even for 2012. Lets start with the plagiarism. To avoid as many spoilers as possible, there is a crime in the book committed by two young man resulting in the death of a truck driver on the highway. The book does an incredible job setting up the scene for the crime so you can visualize it. Turns out however, that an online media platform “salon” had written an article about the same crime 7 years before the books release. I was shocked to find out as i read the article that the book had plagiarized it shamelessly word for word. It’s literally the second result on google, they didnt even try to hide it. Furthermore, the book repetitively refers to “gamers” as “mountain dew addicted nerds” which as we all know is just not true or funny at all, kind of rude if im being honest as a “gamer” myself. On top of this, the book has a lot of forced humor with video game related jokes that just do not hit in the way the author must have intended them to. It becomes a bit agitating after a while. Still, being able to hear stories of the rockstar staff and their emails back and forth was a riot and created a new perspective for me to look at their games. Still worth the listen

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