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The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life Paperback – April 17, 2007

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Imagine an enormous, breathtaking virtual world to explore, where land can be bought for less than a dollar and new construction is limited only by your imagination. An online tourist destination where you can shop for virtual designer clothes in a shopping mall atop a live volcano, teleport to an underwater gig by U2, before taking a new friend back to your personal spaceship for virtual coffee or...well, you get the idea. The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life is a fast, fun guidebook that introduces first-time visitors to the endless wonders offered by this exciting and rapidly developing online world. All of Second Life is here, including:

The Essentials. What to wear and how to behave.
The People. Finding likeminded souls—or soulmates.
The Major Destinations. Must-see tourist hotspots, shops, and shows.
Shopping and Nightlife. A guide to the lively virtual shopping scene, and all manner of debauchery.
For Entrepreneurs. How to buy land or start a Second Life business.

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St. Martin's Griffin
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April 17, 2007
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4.89 x 0.64 x 7.88 inches
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0312376480
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978-0312376482
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"This book is the only guide you'll need to get past the Second Life hype and find out what all the buzz is about."—Mark Frauenfelder, co-founder of Boing Boing, the world's most popular blog

About Second Life

"A startlingly lifelike 3-D virtual world...Second Life [is] about building things, meeting people, and expressing yourself."—Time

"If you want to stay abreast of what's happening in tech, you need to get inside Second Life."—Fortune

"Second Life...is riding a real-world wave of new users and publicity that suggests the blossoming of an Internet superstar."—U.S. News & World Report

About the Author

Paul Carr is co-founder of the cross-media publishing house The Friday Project, and founding editor of the award-winning satirical "comment sheet," The Friday Thing (http://www.thefridaything.co.uk). He regularly speaks about new media at events around the world, and is the author of eleven books. Graham Pond is a journalist, editor of various online newsletters, and editor-in-chief of Fridaycities.com. He has lived in various European cities but has now settled in London where, like his avatar in Second Life, he can often be found lounging around in an Elvis wig and a skirt.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (April 17, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312376480
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312376482
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.89 x 0.64 x 7.88 inches

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An Unfashionable Woman

Mostly Obsolete Information, Useful for History Buffs

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2016

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At the time this book was written, this was probably a good guide. Now, unfortunately, I estimate that 98% of the information here is obsolete.

This might be useful to Second Life History buffs, and there is some information about virtual sex I haven't seen elsewhere, but the book is worthless as a tourist guide to Second Life as it is today or even was five years ago.

The burned spot on the bottom of the cupcake* is that the books claims that there is a website, [...], which will offer updated information. This site is dead.

I would recommend "The Second Life Official Guide" by Michael Ryneszewsi and Wagner James Au instead of this.

*that's the opposite of "The frosting on the cake."

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2007

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As a 35-year veteran of online worlds, everything from irc to chat to the Palace to the Sims, I was skeptical about Second Life. Whatever fancy technology is involved, people are still people, and I figured it was in essence a chat room with new bells and whistles. And it is that--the core behaviors of online chat have not changed much in 35 years--but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there is much more to Second Life than chat. I was helped in this discovery by the authors of this book. The official book from Linden Labs mostly tells you how to do things. This book goes another step, and suggests things to do. The news media seem mostly focused on commerce and sex in Second Life. And there is that. The people in Second Life are similar to the cyber-denizens you will find anywhere online. The real difference here is the places: the worlds that people have built. Even if you never talk to anyone else, you can have amazing experiences simply exploring: a mystical forest, a sinister cathedral in the sky, an amusement park where you can ride a roller coaster, a Victorian village, an urban wasteland, and romantic sunset beaches are among thousands of places imagined and created, not by the owners of Second Life, but by its "residents." This guide helped me find all of them, giving hours of enjoyment even to this ancient cyber-skeptic.

I also appreciate that the authors have taken some time to bring readers up to speed on the culture of Second Life's residents. In any online community--well, any community really, online or off--there is always a subtext that new people struggle to understand, consisting of previous events and interpersonal struggles. The authors have shed light on this history for us in a most amusing way. In short, I'm grateful to have read this book at the beginning of my Second Life experience; it was very, very helpful and has increased my enjoyment of Second Life considerably.

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Thomas B. Gross

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Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2007

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I've been playing Second Life for only about a week and was curious to see if there were any books written about it. I must admit I was surprised to see that there are several available, but I bought this one because it was the only book I saw on Amazon that appeared to have been reviewed by actual people, and not just by the author's Second Life avatar. (I have also ordered the new edition of the Official Guide due out next month.)

After receiving the book last night I understand and appreciate Jerry Saperstein's earlier review on this page. I feel fortunate to have at least tried Second Life before seeing this book, and I still have hope that Second Life is more than what is described in this book.

There is some useful information here, but the stuff I really want to know (like, if I buy "new land" can I choose the location?) I guess I'll just have to find out on my own. Thanks to this book, I now know that Amsterdam Second Life is a really good place to get my Second Life genitals, an aspect of the game that had not occurred to me, and frankly really doesn't interest me. If the book is right, and cybersex is really what Second Life is all about, then maybe the $10 I spent on this book has saved me a lot of time wasted in this game.

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Doesn't really get me excited about trying Second Life

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2007

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I bought this book because I was curious about Second Life. I had visited the Second Life web site and didn't find a lot there to get me excited or really curious, so I thought this promised overview might provide a more convincing argument.

It doesn't.

The book isn't bad. It is quite informative, in fact. But it leaves me with the impression that Second Life is just another roleplaying game of the kind that interested me a couple of decades ago but long ago lost their appeal.

The authors make it clear that Second Life is the same old thing in new dress. People looking for cybersex; people looking to control; people looking to escape reality, but dragging their real-life problems with them. In short, Second Life is just another online game with great hype.

Granted, there are many people who enjoy frittering away hours in roleplaying environments. I am not one of them. To that end, this book has served me well: it convinced me that Second Life was not worth trying.

The authors do provide a thorough overview of Second Life and its "attractions" and venues. For people who enjoy this kind of thing, it would be a good introductory guide. To the authors' credit, they don't try to make Second Life appear to be a musn't miss experience; in fact, they take pains to acknowledge that it is just a game and that some people appear to take it far too seriously.

Jerry

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