After hearing unending praise for this new piece of "gaming literature", I certainly was interested. However, I came away pretty disappointed.Yes, this is a novel based on gaming. And, yes, this aspires to literary heights. But it fails - I don't want to get so excited that gaming is now "literary" that I ignore the quality of the work itself. This feels derivative of any number of GenX novels, tracing back to Copeland's "Generation X". The characters are shallow, the social commentary bland, and the ending ..... nonexistent.This is an utterly mediocre attempt, and the fact it concerns videogames shouldn't matter at all. The Great Videogame Novel still is waiting out there, somewhere. "Lucky Wander Boy" sure isn't it.