Play Money

Play Money is quite an interesting book to say the least. I never would have pickedd this book up, had I not had this class. I think it's really fascinating how Dibbell wanted to take a risk and see how he could do with selling virual items. If I was his wife, I would have said, "you're crazy" and walked away. I certainly wouldn't have taken it seriously. Towards the end when he discovers that it is crashing right before his eyes, he says this:

"Nobody had to ask me what had finally pushed me over the edge--they could take their pick of proximate causes. Friends and family mostly blamed the shattering of my marriage, but others recognized that my career was in a crisis, too, neither clearly reinvigorated by the year at Stanford nor prestnly sustained by much more than the hanging thread of a magazine contract I had now blown off for too long, it appeared, to earn renewal when it ran out in a month or two. Personally, my darkest thougths focused on th career, which in my gut I knew to be over, while my marriage, something told me, would in time recover." (286)

The thing that really kind of irritates me with all this, is that he was always more preoccupied with the PLay MOney project, and voluntarily failed his marriage. He put his heart and soul into the project, traveling crazy miles accross country. If it was me, I would have said, YEAHHHH RIGHT.