{"id":967,"date":"2011-01-08T22:24:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T05:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2011\/01\/08\/review-for-the-win\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:28:55","slug":"review-for-the-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2011\/01\/review-for-the-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: For The Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7241373-for-the-win\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"For The Win\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1268422193m\/7241373.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7241373-for-the-win\">For The Win<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/12581.Cory_Doctorow\">Cory Doctorow<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/139426719\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, this book is like &quot;The Jungle&quot; for our times, just it takes place in PC farms in Malaysia, India, and China. Interspaced a few times throughout the story of the characters are a few chapters about the economic principles of an increasingly multi-national world, written in a easy to understand fashion. The chapters that take place in China seem authentic with the current economic conditions there (low-educated workers streaming in from the countryside to be taken advantage of in the city-based factories). <\/p>\n<p>The chapters in China with &quot;Jie&quot; (the pirate-broadcasting girl) &#8212; her introduction at all, really &#8212; seem a bit contrived, but hey: it&#8217;s a story. I&#8217;ll forgive it, and it helps move the book along.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked the chapters dealing with the MMORPG &quot;headquarters&quot; &#8212; I can almost imagine a room like controlling World of Warcraft, subtly changing game mechanics and coefficients to keep players hooked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/3841777-captain-skyhawk\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For The Win by Cory Doctorow My rating: 4 of 5 stars Honestly, this book is like &quot;The Jungle&quot; for our times, just it takes place in PC farms in Malaysia, India, and China. Interspaced a few times throughout the story of the characters are a few chapters about the economic principles of an increasingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-life","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZUZG-fB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}